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Dance crest, Nigeria - Niger Delta, Isoko/Kwale Igbo, Size: H: 50 cm (H: 19.7 inch), ID: 3043836
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Lot 291
89th Tribal Art Auction

Dance crest ·  Nigeria - Niger Delta, Isoko/Kwale Igbo · ID: 3043836

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Provenance
Manfred Schäfer, Ulm, Germany
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 Juni 2014, lot 163
Size
H: 50 cm
H: 19.7 inch

Description

wood, kaolin, aglets, rep.

The Isoko are an Edo-speaking, northern Niger Delta people of mixed Edo (Urhobo and Benin) and Igbo origins, living next to the Western Igbo and Urhobo. They share art institutions with both.

Most masks of this region were dedicated to “owu” or “oworu” water spirits who are known for conferring prosperity or disease, innovations or destruction.

The object Dance crest with the object ID 3043836 was last part of the auction 89th Tribal Art Auction at July 7, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 291.

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Expertise

Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, 1 May 2003, Munich

Comparing literature

Cole, Herbert M., Invention and Tradition, Munich, London, New York 2012, p. 64 f.

Publications

AHDRC: 0145264

Africa

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