Headdress ·  Nigeria, Boki · ID: 3036880

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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

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Comparing literature

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

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Publications

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

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Exhibition

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

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