BAULE HELMET 1, Ivory Coast

Photographs © Tim Hamill

BAULE, Helmet 1, 13" high, $1000, Ivory Coast SOLD

In traditional Africa, helmets were used not only as protection, but also to show status or rank. They can be carved from wood, cast in bronze or woven and embellished with horns, symbolic forms, cloth, cowries, metal strips and beads. This helmet, with two monkey heads, was probably associated with the use of the Baule Mbra monkey figures.





 

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