Headdress "gelede" · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3050321
sold
EUR 750
Provenance
collected pre 1950s by a French officerSize
H: 32 cm
H: 12.6 inch
Description
wood, residues of colour pigments,
The beautiful facial features arranged in the lower third of the headdress. Crowned by a high towering elaborate coiffure of accurately worked, overlapping triangles.