SIX AMUESHA CANE HATS
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SIX AMUESHA CANE HATS

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SIX AMUESHA CANE HATS
Each of woven rattan and cylindrical form decorated with geometric ornament in coloured cottons, with flanges
Each about 22cm. diameter (6)
Literature
Le Musée Imaginaire de Tintin, Brussels, 1979, p.35, for one
Exhibited
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1979 for one
Special notice
Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20.825% of the hammer price for lots with values up to NLG 200,000. If the hammer price exceeds the NLG 200,000 then the premium is calculated at 20.825% of the first NLG 200,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of NLG 200,000.

Lot Essay

Cf. Steward, J.H. and Métraux, A., Tribes of the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Montana in Handbook of the South American Indians, Washington D.C., 1948, Vol.3, bulletin 143, Pl.50, for a photograph of a man wearing a similar hat attributed to the Campa. The author states that such headdresses are worn throughout a large area in Ecuador and Peru

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