Antelope dance crest "sogi ni kun" or "tjiwara" ·  Mali, Bamana · ID: 3038106

Description

wood, dark brown patina, remains of pigments, consisting of several stylized animals, crowned by two seated female figures and a long pair of horns, horns with rest of resin-like mass, originally inset with cowrie snails, min. dam., small missing part (right forearm), slight traces of abrasion, base

The object Antelope dance crest “sogi ni kun” or “tjiwara” with the object ID 3038106 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 117.

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Comparing literature

Museum of Primitive Art (ed.), Bambara sculpture from the Western Sudan, New York 1960, p. 47