Dance crest ·  Nigeria, Igbo · ID: 3035003

Description

wood, painted in black, accents of white and red paint, helmet-shaped vaulted cranium, carved with a projecting middle crest with burled decor in relief, accentuation of the horizontal middle axis by a red bar on the helmet and reliefic emblem on the crest, slightly dam. (rim), missing part (helmet, rim right hand side), paint rubbed off, metal base

The object Dance crest with the object ID 3035003 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 245 achieved a sales price of EUR 4,000.

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