Antelope dance crest "sogi ni kun" or "tjiwara" ·  Mali, Bamana · ID: 3038106

Description

wood, dark brown patina, remains of pigments, consisting of several stylized animals, crowned by two seated female figures and a long pair of horns, horns with rest of resin-like mass, originally inset with cowrie snails, min. dam., small missing part (right forearm), slight traces of abrasion, base

Littérature comparée

Museum of Primitive Art (ed.), Bambara sculpture from the Western Sudan, New York 1960, p. 47