Figural headdress ·  Nigeria, Ibibio / Ogoni · ID: 3049409

Description

wood, kaolin, rest., base

A comparable figural headdress is associated by Fagg with “ka elu” mask performances by the Ogoni (AHDRC 0097095).

Kpone-Tonwe and Salmons report a “ka-elu” performance in July 1992 in Eeke, where more than twenty mask dancers were observed, each representing one particular family of the city. They moved from one family compound to the next t in order to bring blessings from the ancestors and dispel evil spirits.

According to Fagg, the “ka-elu” masque should have died out already before 1939.

The object Figural headdress with the object ID 3049409 was last part of the auction 99th Auction at November 12, 2022 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 262.

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Comparing literature

Anderson, Martha G., Ways of the Rivers, Los Angeles 2002, p. 283 f.