Zemanek-Münster

Mask ·  Nigeria, Ibibio · ID: 3040460

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Provenance
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 24 November 2012, lot 229
Size
H: 53 cm
H: 20.9 inch

Description

wood, polychrome paint, coiffure with two lobes, crest in form of a small head rising from columnar neck, coiffures with drillings, pierced around the rim, min. dam., missing parts through insect caused damage, traces of abrasion;
probably depicting “mami wata”.


The object Mask with the object ID 3040460 was last part of the auction 83rd Tribal Art Auction at May 28, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 251.

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Comparing literature

Drewal, Henry John, Mami Wata, Los Angeles 2008, p. 118, ill. 6.2


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