Statue Jonyeleni - Bambara / Marka - Mali - Rituel Jo

Les figurines appelées Jonyeleni, sont des représentations de la femme à l'origine première du Jo.
Elles sont la matérialisation de l'âme de l'entité féminine qui est à l'origine de la création des pratiques initiatiques qui organisent et maintiennet l'ordre social.

Ces statues rappellent la jeune fille dans son état idéal à sont plus haut degré d'attraction physique.

Les statuettes Jonyeleni sont utilisées lors des initiations septennales qui les voient aller de villages en villages, portées par les Jodenw.

Belle statuette Bambara, bois dur et patine crouteuse...

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Jonyeleni Figure - Bambara / Marka - Mali - African figures

This is a classic Bamana Female Figure

Finely carved and decorated figures such as this represent a beautiful young woman, a maiden. She is identified as being a "Jonyeleni", a member of the Jo society, a woman's and men's initiation society among the Bamana.

Young women will carry sculptures such as this from village to village indicating that they are no longer children but mature women ready and available for marriage.

This takes place on a seven year cycle of initiation of boys and girls into this level of Jo Society membership. The sculptures carried by the young women serve as paradigms of beauty and well being reflecting the physical attributes of ideal beauty that the Jonyeleni reflects to others.

This idealization of beauty is reflected in the scarification and body markings as well as her stylized coiffure and the jewelry and clothing attached to the figure to enhance their attractiveness.

This well carved figure also characterizes the essence of womanhood and of social cohesion that results from the order and structure of the Jo woman's society.

The Jonyeleni figure represents the aesthetic ideal of youthful beauty allied to the characterization of an ideal society of order and structure.' For wonderful examples and more information, see BAMANA-THE ART OF EXISTENCE IN MALI, edited by Colleyn.

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Mali

Bambara

41 x 8

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