Garment of a fetischeur · Mali · ID: 3037639
sold
EUR 1,500
Size
L: 93 cm
L: 36.6 inch
Description
tunic-like wrap made from rough cotton cloth with broad sleeves and fringes, hung with various objects that are magically loaded and of great ritual significance (metal blades, worm casing, calabash, wickerwork rattles, bird claws, bones, skulls of small animals, lizard skin, animal horns and tusks, tortoise shell, various items carved from wood), the neckdecolletage hung with leather amulets;
leather amulets contain suras or magic formulas.
Comparing literature
Bouttiaux, Anne-Marie et. al., African costumes and textiles from the Berbers to the Zulus, o. O. 2008, ill. 67