Zemanek-Münster

Anthropomorphic headdress ·  Nigeria, Idoma / Igbo · ID: 3048728

sold EUR 600
Provenance
Ketterer, Munich, 15 December 1990, Lot 330
Karl-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.


The object Anthropomorphic headdress with the object ID 3048728 was last part of the auction 98th Auction at March 26, 2022 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 54 achieved a sales price of EUR 600.

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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


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