Deformation mask "idiok ekpo"

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Description

wood, blackened, red and white pigment, protruding brows with eyeballs of differering size, displaced mouth with clefted upper lips,bulging cheeks with abscesses, crack (chin zone), minor missing parts backside at the rim;
illness or deformation masks were danced at masquerades of the “ekpo” society; they mostly depict people suffering of untreated leprosy, gangosa, syphilitic lesions, or mucosal leishmaniasis.

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Comparing literature

Wittmer, Marcilene K. & William Arnett, Three Rivers of Nigeria, Atlanta 1978, p. 78 ff.

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