Flute · Burkina Faso, Bwa · ID: 3040058
sold
EUR 260
Provenance
Emil Storrer, Zurich, SwitzerlandSize
H: 28,5 cm
H: 11.2 inch
Description
wood, shiny dark brown patina, in anthropomorphic shape (“with arms akimbo”), wrapped with leather and stripes of fur, fixed by plant fibre, min. dam., small missing parts, fine cracks, acrylic base;
these flutes are played to signal the beginning of communal hunt and were used in battle too.
Comparing literature
Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 431