Bobo Antelope Headdress, Burkina Faso
height 9 7/8in (25.2cm)
Wood, black and white pigment
Provenance:
F.-H Lem, Paris
Helena Rubinstein Collection
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1966, lot 92
Private Collection, New York
Literature:
Elisofan & Fagg, The Sculpture of Africa, 1958, op. cit., p. 53, illustrated (as Mossi)
"This class of small painted antelope headdresses probably belong to the Bobo, or possibly the Gurunsi, though they are sometimes given to the Mossi. They are used in agrarian rites." (Elisofan & Fagg, 1958)
Wood, black and white pigment
Provenance:
F.-H Lem, Paris
Helena Rubinstein Collection
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1966, lot 92
Private Collection, New York
Literature:
Elisofan & Fagg, The Sculpture of Africa, 1958, op. cit., p. 53, illustrated (as Mossi)
"This class of small painted antelope headdresses probably belong to the Bobo, or possibly the Gurunsi, though they are sometimes given to the Mossi. They are used in agrarian rites." (Elisofan & Fagg, 1958)
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US$ 13,750
inc. premium
Category: Ethnographic Art / African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art
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