Helmet mask · Nigeria, Igbo/Idoma · ID: 3036514
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Provenance
Jean-Paul Agogué, Paris, FranceSize
H: 41 cm
H: 16.1 inch
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
The object Helmet mask with the object ID 3036514 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 443.
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Comparing literature
Wittmer, Marcilene K. & William Arnett, Three Rivers of Nigeria, Atlanta 1978, p. 20, ill. 41