dance-head-dress
- Museum number
- Af1956,27.8
- Description
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Wooden dance headdress (chi wara), with two antelopes.
- Dimensions
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Height: 75 centimetres
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Width: 23.50 centimetres
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Depth: 6.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Description from William Fagg, ‘The Webster Plass collection of African Art, an illustrated catalogue’, British Museum 1953, cat.9.
Wooden Bambara dance headdress (chi wara), painted black in the form of two antelopes treated in a more realistic way than Af1956,27.7, the head and horns of both being elongated in the style of Segu. The upper and smaller antelope is carved without hindquarters; a rectangular base is carved for attachment to the cap.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1956,27.8