Dance crest "ajika" ·  Nigeria, Afo · ID: 3038559

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Description

wood, encrusted dark brown patina, leather band, metal, calotte with horns, crowned by a stylized cocks crown, dam., missing parts, traces of insect caused damage;
a work of the artist “Oketi of Ojekpama”.
Used at the fourth or fifth day of funerary rites for the “ekpeshi” dance. According to Leuzinger it was worn by companions of the chief when he visited a neighbouring village.

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Comparing literature

Roberts, Allen F., Animals in African Art, New York 1995, p. 157, ill. 101

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Publications

Vogel, Susan, For spirits and kings, African Art from the Paul and Ruth Tishman Collection, New York 1981, p. 152, ill. 36

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