Hunter’s Shirt, West Africa
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$51.8
Hunter’s Shirt with Magic Charms West Africa, probably Liberia H 37″ x W 60″ x D 2″ 94cm x 152cm x 5cm Shirt of woven fiber, painted and embellished heavily with leather strips and charms that include predator teeth, antelope and dik dik horns, the scalp of a monkey, and leather-bound Koran prayers. Collected in Liberia by a geologist in the 1960s-70s. (The final photo is of a 12” by 20” magic fetish fragment, on animal hide, also collected in Liberia 1960s—70s, included with the shirt purchase.) $1750
African Art