Antelope dance crest "zazaigo" ·  Burkina Faso, Mossi · ID: 3033007

Description

wood, matt patina, polychrome paint, a bonnet of rough fabric with long extending strings of raffia, surmounted by the stylized figure of an antelope, min. dam., minor missing parts, slight traces of abrasion

The object Antelope dance crest “zazaigo” with the object ID 3033007 was last part of the auction 69th tribal art auction at June 2, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 216 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.

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Comparing literature

Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 127