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