Helmet mask

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Description

wood, whitened with kaolin, black paint, small traces of red and yellow, crowned by a high-tapering, open worked coiffure, carved with incised triangular patterns on the back, drilled holes around the rim (for attachment of a costume), rep. (breakages at the coiffure), fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion

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Comparing literature

Wittmer, Marcilene K. & William Arnett, Three Rivers of Nigeria, Atlanta 1978, p. 20, ill. 41

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