Bambara Tyi Wara Antelope Headdress | Female, Based

The Bambara credit a creature like this with teaching people to farm.

This female tyi wara antelope headdress, on a base, is Bambara, from Segou, Mali, in West Africa, and dates to the early 20th century. It is wood. Dancers wore such headdresses in farming ceremonies, celebrating the mythical half-human, half-antelope figure of tyi wara and the labor of the fields. A rounded, cross-hatched head with long jaws reaches forward from a slim neck bound with fiber. One long horn sweeps back over a small bowed body. Twenty-five inches wide and 13 high.

The horn keeps going after the eye has stopped.