Hunter's decoy headdress "burtu" · Nigeria, Hausa · ID: 3036610
sold
EUR 500
Size
H: 43,5 cm
H: 17.1 inch
Description
made of the skull of a hornbill stretched with leather, cord for fixing it on the hunters head, min. dam., tears, slight traces of abrasion, base;
hunters made nodding movements to imagine the wild game to be safe.
Comparing literature
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kultur, München, Berlin 1994, p. 97