Mask "agbogho mmwo" (maiden spirit) · Nigeria, Igbo, Ebenebe region · ID: 3040357
sold
EUR 2,000
Provenance
Lore Kegel & Georg Kegel, Hamburg, Germany (collected in situ, 1958)Oskar Schimmer, Erlangen, Germany (2000)
Size
H: 21 cm
H: 8.3 inch
Description
wood, black and white pigment, regular fine carved facial features, ornamental facial tattoos in flat relief, slightly dam., minor missing parts, abrasion of paint
The object Mask “agbogho mmwo” (maiden spirit) with the object ID 3040357 was last part of the auction 83rd Tribal Art Auction at May 28, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 266 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,000.
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