Mask "oba maoro" · Nigeria, Igbo-Afikpo · ID: 3038984
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Size
H: 41 cm
H: 16.1 inch
Description
wood, matt patina, polychrome paint, plant fibres, of abstract form, a rectangular, partly open-worked forehead-nose-ridge flanked by elongated open worked slit eyes, surmounted by a high towering head crest with triangular piercings, min. dam., small missing parts through insect caused damage, fine cracks
Comparing literature
Robbins, Warren M. & Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, o.O. 1989, p. 261, ill. 687