Cafe Manet
Artist: Red Grooms (American, born 1937)
Date: 1976
Dimensions:
Overall: 13 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (33.7 x 37.5 cm)
Medium: Etching and Aquatint
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1981.113
Label Text:The forest and wilderness are considered by the Bamana people to be domains of danger and unpredictability. For that reason, hunters must have extraordinary insight and knowledge, and hunters’ shirts reflect their mastery of special knowledge and powers. Such shirts are considered to have magical secrets encoded in the designs, whose geometrical patterns are derived from Islamic magic squares used for protection and healing. A hunter wears such a shirt only on ceremonial occasions, and the shirt is considered to be so potent that it must never be worn by another person.
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