Anthropomorphic headdress with crested coiffure · Nigeria, Igbo / Idoma · ID: 3051040
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Provenance
Jacques Kerchache, Paris, FranceSamir Borro, Brussels, Belgium
Austrian Private Collection
Size
H: 22 cm
H: 8.7 inch
Description
wood, pigments, rest., base
In 1968, Starkweather labelled helmet masks comparable in shape and design as “nwanza” headdresses and located them in northern Igboland in the region of the village of Inyi. Skip Cole labelled this type “achi inyi” in 2022.
Comparing literature
"Traditional Igbo Art", An Exhibition of Wood Sculpture...From the Frank Starkweather Collection, University of Michigan, 1968, ill. 106 ff.
Publications
"Superheroes", Paris-Brussels: Édition Altitude 100, 2019AHDRC: 0162591