Headdress ·  Nigeria, Boki · ID: 3036880

Description

wooden core, nearly entirely coated with leather, expressive facial features: bulging eyes stud with silver sheet, the nose in shape of a pigs nozzle, the mouth wide open with a human upper jaw inserted, coiffure and beard with real hair, min. dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion, missing parts (teeth);
alike the neighbouring Ekoi, Ejagham and other Cross River people the Boki cultivated the tradition of headhunting

The object Headdress with the object ID 3036880 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 269 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,300.

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Comparing literature

Preston-Blier, Suzanne, Africa's Cross River, New York o. J., ill. 4

Publications

Kahan, Leonard et .al., A Cameroon World, New York 2007, p. 56, ill. 6

Exhibition

"A Cameroon World", University of New York, 19 October - 28 February 2008