Garment of a fetischeur ·  Mali · ID: 3037639

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.

The object Garment of a fetischeur with the object ID 3037639 was part of the auction 78th tribal art auction on October 18, 2014. The object with the lot number 141 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,500 with an asking price of EUR 800.

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Comparing literature

Bouttiaux, Anne-Marie et. al., African costumes and textiles from the Berbers to the Zulus, o. O. 2008, ill. 67