Description:

Burkina Faso. Lobi copper alloy amulet in form of a chameleon with coiled tail and relief eyes. Warm yellow-brown patina with black deposits. Custom base. Wheelock wrote in Land of the Flying Masks. Art and Culture in Burkina Faso, "...people believe chameleons capable of effecting change for others, noted, as they are, for their ability to change their own colors; thus, the owner of the shrine can alter his own circumstances." Size: 1"H. x 1-1/2"L.

Provenance: Ex. Thomas G.B. Wheelock (1941-2016), NYC/ Nashville. Published: Christopher Roy & Thomas G.B. Wheelock. "Land of the Flying Masks. Art and Culture in Burkina Faso: The Thomas G.B. Wheelock Collection", 2007, no. 335.

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