Headdress with large female figure · Nigeria, Igbo · ID: 3048862
sold
EUR 500
Provenance
Jan Kusters, Waalre, The NetherlandsSize
H: 51 cm
H: 20.1 inch
Description
light wood, polychrome painting, rest. in several places
A comparable headdress published by Cole on a field photo from the 1940s. The photo shows that the disproportionately large hands once held ritual staffs. Concerning the use of the headdresses, Cole suspects a connection with the “owu” cult of water spirits. Stylistically, the headdress shows echoes of works by the Ogoni and Ibibio.
Comparing literature
Cole, Herbert M. & Chike C. Aniakor, Igbo Arts, Los Angeles 1984, p. 214, ill. 329