Hunter's decoy headdress "burtu" · Nigeria, Hausa · ID: 3041817
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Provenance
Christian Duponcheel, Pietrebais, BelgiumSize
H: 40 cm
H: 15.7 inch
Description
skull of a hornbill wrapped in animal skin, open beak, eyes inset with seed capsules (missing on one side), min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion;
hunters made nodding movements to imagine the wild game to be safe.
The object Hunter’s decoy headdress “burtu” with the object ID 3041817 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 258.
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Comparing literature
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kultur, München, Berlin 1994, p. 97