Anthropomorphic headdress · Nigeria, Idoma / Igbo · ID: 3048728
sold
EUR 600
Provenance
Ketterer, Munich, 15 December 1990, Lot 330Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, Munich, Germany
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 5 December 1998, Lot 18
Werner Zintl, Worms, Germany
Size
H: 63 cm
H: 24.8 inch
Description
wood, kaolin, black paint, plant fibre, blackish mass, fabrics from different materials (partly brittle), metal, fabric strip added
Strikingly large human head on a long neck. The eyes with tin inlays. At the back of the head there are two rows of small bells whose delicate sound must have accompanied every movement of the headdress.
A stylistically comparable head with fabric-covered neck illustrated in Wittmer & Arnett, 1978, p. 27, ill. 59.
Comparing literature
Wittmer, Marcilene K. & William Arnett, Three Rivers of Nigeria, Atlanta 1978, p. 27, ill. 59 Neyt, François, The Arts of the Benue, Michigan 1985, p. 130, III.52
Publications
AHDRC: 0094336