Zemanek-Münster

Mask with movable jaw "idiok ekpo"

Nigeria, Ibibio
Price EUR 900
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance
Roland Hartmann, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Zemanek-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)


Comparing literature

Wittmer, Marcilene K. & William Arnett, Three Rivers of Nigeria, Atlanta 1978, p. 72, ill. 171

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