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Commissioned by the Museum for the 2003 exhibition <I>Shuffling the Deck</I> and inspired by a ceremonial cape from mid-twentieth-century Cameroon, <I>Tunic</I> consists of a puffy jacket partially disguised by a layer of feathers. The meeting of these two very different artifacts sets in motion a collision with &shy;historical, geographical, and cultural ramifications. The urban meets the rural, while hip-hop mingles with traditional Bamileke dance. Biggers’s puffy, feathered jacket is also intended to underscore affinities: display, competition, and affiliation are only some of the connotations that it shares with the tunic. </P></SPAN>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"<p><i>Tunic </i>takes inspiration from a work in the Museum’s collections: a plumed ceremonial cape made in twentieth-century Cameroon. The ceremonial cape is a feather-covered garment worn during a dance marking a young man’s initiation into a community of adult men. Biggers’s version is a puffy down jacket covered with a layer of feathers. The artist Terry Adkins, whose work is adjacent, wore <i>Tunic </i>in 2009 to perform a ritualistic dance of his own devising with musical accompaniment, transforming the jacket into a modern-day ceremonial object.</p><p> -</p><p>Artist unrecorded (Bamileke), Cameroon Grassfields, Cameroon, Plumed tunic, after 1950. Synthetic fiber and feathers (African harrier-hawk, great blue turaco, and domestic chicken), 135 x 121 x 39 cm. Princeton University Art Museum. Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951 (1998-728)\n </p>","remarks":"MOD-CI_09-12_CLA – Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Sanford Biggers, the artist, New York, New York, sold; to Princeton University Art Museum, 2003.","remarks":"According to info in the curatorial file, check whether this was a commission. AP."}],"datebegin":2003,"sortnumber":"2003  147","published_date":"2026-03-31 02:32:06.076132","objectid":41983,"dimensions":"91.4 x 91.4 x 47 cm (36 x 36 x 18 1/2 in.)\r\nstorage housing: 110 × 113 × 58.5 cm (43 5/16 × 44 1/2 × 23 1/16 in.)","on_view":true}