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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 11070724, member: 8267&quot;]Welcome [USER=95512]@CuriousityRover[/USER].</p><p><br /></p><p>Can you please post some detail views of the base of your antelope? The style changed over time from a mask that was worn over the face to one worn as a headdress. In particular, I would like to see if there are any holes on the base indicating any method of attachments, or other signs of use. That may help determine if it may be a (well done) tourist piece or actually made for use.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other groups in Burkina Faso and in neighboring Mali make various types of antelope masks, some with their horns curving backward. Your are right to notice, however, that this is not common with Kurumba adoné headdresses. I have not yet found another example.</p><p><br /></p><p>But as Esther Dagan explains in a 1987 gallery exhibition catalog -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]535972[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]535974[/ATTACH] </p><p>Esther A. Dagan: <u>Man and His Vision: The Traditional Wood Sculpture of Burkina Faso</u></p><p>Galerie Amrad African Arts.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Please excuse the weird sizing - I was trying to save typing out the whole quote.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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