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
The object Mask “oba maoro” with the object ID 3038984 was last part of the auction 83rd Tribal Art Auction at May 28, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 256.
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Comparing literature
Robbins, Warren M. & Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, o.O. 1989, p. 261, ill. 687