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Chameleon yawiige (ornamental amulet)
View through The Met
Brass, Senufo
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Bryce Holcombe Collection of African Decorative Art Bequest of Bryce Holcombe 1984
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