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A Superb Bamana Antelope Headdress, Mali
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description
tji wara, the female antelope with elongated curved round neck leading to vertical horns and with one metal earring to each side; exceptionally fine glossy blackened patina.
Provenance
Stephen Chauvet, Paris
Maurice Ratton, Paris
Phillippe Ratton, Paris
Acquired from the above, 1980s
Catalogue Note
For a closely related antelope from the Helena Rubenstein Collection, Paris and New York, see Lem (1948: 75, pl. 29); for another previously in the Pierre Dartevelle Collection, Brussels, see Beaulieux (2000: 169).