Mask "mba" · Nigeria, Igbo-Afikpo · ID: 3037797
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Size
H: 38,5 cm
H: 15.2 inch
Description
light wood, whitened with kaolin, black and red pigment, shield-shaped flattened with tapering chin, bulging eyelids, pierced around the rim, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion, base
The object Mask “mba” with the object ID 3037797 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 292.
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Comparing literature
Ottenberg, Simon, Masked ritual of Afikpo, Washington 1975, p. 79, ill. 34