Rare calabash face mask "mbubu" · Nigeria, Igbo-Afikpo · ID: 3046296
sold
EUR 250
Provenance
Eric Robertson, New York, USASize
H: 33 cm
H: 13.0 inch
Description
pumpkin, plant fibre, clay-like mass, colour pigments (yellow and red ochre, kaolin), base
Only a few specimens of these gourd masks are found in museums or private collections. For a similar object that is located in the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, see African Heritage Documentation & Research Centre, no. 0095473.
Comparing literature
Dagan, Esther A., The African Calabash, New York 1988