Chief's belt · Ghana, Akan · ID: 3041958
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Provenance
Robert Duperrier, Paris, France (1973)Jean-Pierre Laprugne, Paris, France
Size
L: 76,5 cm
B: 6 cm
L: 30.1 inch
B: 2.4 inch
Description
bark cloth, coated with velvet in night-blue, decorated with four wooden emblems covered with gold foil, traces of old age, worn-out, some tears and small holes, colour faded, rep. in two places
The object Chief’s belt with the object ID 3041958 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 226.
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Comparing literature
Ross, Doran H., Gold of the Akan from the Glassell Collection, Houston 2002, p. 230, 8.13