Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2023

Lot 1474

A Bambara headdress chiwara

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £420

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Description

A Bambara headdress chiwara
Mali
with a carved antelope head having the remains of blue pigment and mounted on a woven fibre cap with cloth, fibre and a string of red stone beads,
69cm high.

Provenance
Peter Peretti, London. Acquired in Paris in the mid 1960s.