Male dance crest "aku onu" ·  Nigeria, Jukun · ID: 3035884

Description

wood, reddish brown patina, resin-like mass with red abrus beans, mask face with triangular see holes and horseshoe-shaped snout, carved with a cylindrical projection with an oval crest in openwork design, dam., cracks, traces of insect caused damage, small missing parts, base

The object Male dance crest “aku onu” with the object ID 3035884 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 335.

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Comparing literature

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kultur, München, Berlin 1994, p. 207