Antelope dance crest "zazaigo" ·  Burkina Faso, Mossi · ID: 3033282

Description

light brown wood, matt patina, black and white paint, a bonnet of rough fabric with long extending cord-like raffia strings and bands of fabric embroidered with cowrie snails, surmounted by the stylized head of a buffalo, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion

The object Antelope dance crest “zazaigo” with the object ID 3033282 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 232.

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Comparing literature

Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 126