Mask · Nigeria, Igbo-Afikpo · ID: 3050023
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Size
H: 57 cm
H: 22.4 inch
Description
wood, colour pigments, rest.
This type of mask appears in large numbers during male initiation ceremonies among the Igbo. They are part of the extensive “okumkpa” mask festival with hundreds of participants and a wide variety of mask types. (According to Hélène Joubert, in Lebas, 2012, p. 274).
The object Mask with the object ID 3050023 was last part of the auction 101st Auction at November 11, 2023 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 247.
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Comparing literature
Lebas, Alain (ed.), Arts of Nigeria in French Private Collections, Milan 2012, p. 274, ill. 91