Janiform dance crest ·  Nigeria, Ejagham · ID: 3037814

Description

wood, leather, bicolored, dyed in darkbrown and reddish brown, different scarifications and eye design, conical headgear with drilled holes for feather ornament, dam., cracks, traces of abrasion, small missing parts;
probably deriving from the Akparapong. The Akparabong are an Ejagham clan living along the Aweyong, an upper Cross River tributary. They produce for their “ekpe” society refined skin-covered dance crests and helmet masks of a distinctive style often incorrectly thought of as classic Ekoi.

The object Janiform dance crest with the object ID 3037814 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 284 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,600.

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Comparing literature

Nevermann, Hans & Margaret Trowell, Afrika und Ozeanien, München o.J., p. 62 Wittmer, Marcilene K. & William Arnett, Three Rivers of Nigeria, Atlanta 1978, p. 78