23rd Aug, 2022 9:30
Ethnographic Art
A Bambara Chiwara headdress, Mali, in the typical form of a male Roan antelope, the head with applied embossed brass sheets, the tip of one horn bound in leather with animal hair, height 135 cm.
The Andrzej von Staranburg Niedenthal Collection.
Sold for £220
Condition Report
Left horn missing leather tip and has small crack, minor marks throughout with some very minor pitting.
A Bambara Chiwara headdress, Mali, in the typical form of a male Roan antelope, the head with applied embossed brass sheets, the tip of one horn bound in leather with animal hair, height 135 cm.
ProvenanceThe Andrzej von Staranburg Niedenthal Collection.
