Lot 200
200
AN IVORY COAST HUNTER'S SHIRT, the heavy woven cotton ground sewn all over with hide strips and suspending hide-bound amulets of teeth, horn, hoof, fur and an animal's tail; and a hide and twisted fibre belt, the triple plaited hide clasp suspending hide tassels the shirt approx. 85cm.long

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AN IVORY COAST HUNTER'S SHIRT, the heavy woven cotton ground sewn all over with hide strips and suspending hide-bound amulets of teeth, horn, hoof, fur and an animal's tail; and a hide and twisted fibre belt, the triple plaited hide clasp suspending hide tassels the shirt approx. 85cm.long

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Cf. Sieber, R., African Textiles and Decorative Arts, New York, 1972, p.46, for a similiar shirt attributed to the Maninka, from Korhogo

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