A Baule flywisk, Atutu or Man related ,surmounted with an elephant, leather, cowriw shells and the hair of a horsetail; these prestige symbols of the Baule were once okated with fine gold sheets, but most of them were remoted long time ago and only some traces of gold are the remnants of its original condition.

200 - 300,- Euro

Height: 43 cm
Weight: 560 g

Baule Fly Whisk in its original condition.

One of the exemplares of the first type of Bamana masks of Korodougou, collected in the village Sanba, commune de Tarako; fabric, calabasse, bamboo and cowrie shells, this and the other two are the oldest models of Bamana masks a long time before they were made of wood, according of my information, they are n´t descriibed in literature, Daba Diarra said, that they are part of the N´tomo initiation ceremony, but only in some villages of the Bamana country, nowadays these masks are extremly rare, because they are much more fragile than ritual objects carved of wood.