About the lot N° 106
Title : A Superb Bamana Antelope Headdress, Mali
Size : measurements note height 15 in. 38.1 cm Provenance : Everett Rassiga, New York, by 1970Stephen and Regina Humanitzki, New YorkPace Primitive, New York (inventory no. '53-0741')Literature : Everett Rassiga Inc. (advertisement), African Arts, Autumn 1970, vol. IV, no. 1, p. 73Dominique Zahan, Antilopes du Soleil. Arts et Rites Agraires d'Afrique Noire, Vienna, 1980, p. 63, fig. 12c and pl. 49, fig. II 4Allen F. Roberts, Animals in African Art: From the Familiar to the Marvelous, New York, 1995, p. 156, cat. 96Sebastian Miller, "The Elusive Chi Wara", Tribal Arts, Spring 1995, p. 81Notes : For a figure by the same hand see Christie's, London, December 6, 1995, lot 82; for another example with similar iconography cf. Segy (1958: pl. 2).Sotheby's, auctioneer, New York, US
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Sale title : African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art
Sale date : 16 May 2008
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