Magical horn ·  Tanzania · ID: 3029016

Description

pumpkin, wood, the horn coated with stripes of pelt and plaited plant fibre, coins (from 1939 resp. 1941), cowrie snails and glass beads attached, wooden stopper in shape of a human head with yellow glass bead eyes and a coiffure of animal skin, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion and usage, on metal base

The object Magical horn with the object ID 3029016 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 480 achieved a sales price of EUR 300.

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Publications

Schulte-Bahrenberg, Ralf (Hg.), Tansania, Stuttgart 2007, p. 123, ill. 15