Helmet mask "gelede" · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3039911
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Provenance
Austrian Collection, ViennaZemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 25 February 2006, lot 181
Size
H: 20 cm
H: 7.9 inch
Description
wood, reddish brown patina, black and indigo blue paint, coiffur with wing-shaped projections and knop-shaped sides min. dam., small missing parts, fine cracks, traces of abrasion
The object Helmet mask “gelede” with the object ID 3039911 was last part of the auction 82nd Tribal Art Auction at February 27, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 422.
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Comparing literature
Drewal, Henry John & Margaret Thompson Drewal, Gelede, Bloomington 1983, p. 171, ill. 94