Mask with movable jaw "idiok ekpo" · Nigeria, Ibibio · ID: 3039758
Price
EUR 900
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance
Roland Hartmann, St. Gallen, SwitzerlandZemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 15 November 2008, lot 85
Hans Dietrich Rielau, Hösbach, Germany
Size
H: 31,5 cm
H: 12.4 inch
Description
wood, black, encrusted patina, expressive forms, cross bar backside for fixing the mask with the mouth), missing part (left eye/backside at the rim), rep. (movable jaw)
The object Mask with movable jaw “idiok ekpo” with the object ID 3039758 was part of the auction 82nd Tribal Art Auction on February 27, 2016, lot number 135 at that time and is currently available for EUR 900 in Open sale.
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Comparing literature
Wittmer, Marcilene K. & William Arnett, Three Rivers of Nigeria, Atlanta 1978, p. 72, ill. 171