Zemanek-Münster
Headdress, Nigeria, Boki, Size: H: 28 cm (H: 11.0 inch), ID: 3042692
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Lot 289
87th Tribal Art Auction

Headdress ·  Nigeria, Boki · ID: 3042692

sold EUR 1,800
Provenance
Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 13 March 2010, lot 171
Size
H: 28 cm
H: 11.0 inch

Description

wooden core, stretched with leather, real hair, cowrie snails, expressive facial features: bulging eyeballs, nose in shape of a pigs nozzle, the mouth wide open with inserted human upper jaw and with the tongue stuck out, min. dam., fine cracks, missing parts (teeth), slight traces of abrasion

Comparing literature

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

Publications

AHDRC: 0090880

Africa

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