Mask ·  Nigeria, Igbo · ID: 3042020

Description

wood, brown patina, polychrome paint, the whole face coated with grooved parallel - partly openworked - scarifications, a standing human figure on each side of the temples (partly wrapped in leather), forehead carved with alternating calabashs and stylized figures in diadem-like arrangement, min. dam., traces of insect caused damage and abrasion, base

The object Mask with the object ID 3042020 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 269 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,500.

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Publications

AHDRC: 0139807