Lot 71
  • 71

Mandé, Maninke or Bamana Hunter's Shirt, Mali

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • violet turaco, leopard, duiker horns, domestic goat
  • Length: 37 inches (94 cm)
with attachments of Domestic goat (Capra hircus) hide, hooves, and dew claws; Leopard (Panthera pardus) teeth, claws, and hide; Yellow Black Duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor) horns; and mummified Violet Turaco (Musophaga violacea) heads.

Provenance

collects ed in Mali by Kent Salter between 1977 and 1979
Kent Salter, Montreal
Harold Gray, Washington, D.C., acquired from the above in the 1980s