Flute ·  Burkina Faso, Bwa · ID: 3040058

Description

wood, shiny dark brown patina, in anthropomorphic shape (“with arms akimbo”), wrapped with leather and stripes of fur, fixed by plant fibre, min. dam., small missing parts, fine cracks, acrylic base;
these flutes are played to signal the beginning of communal hunt and were used in battle too.

Littérature comparée

Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 431