Shoulder mask

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Description

wood, slightly encrusted matt patina, remains of pigments, clamp-shaped corpus, a long neck supporting a narrow head with beak-like mouth and crested coiffure, mirror glass inlay in the area of the eyes and at the temples, trimming with plant fibre, rep. (crack), traces of abrasion;
the Waja live in an area to the north of the upper Benue River. It was not before the 1960s that their large shoulder masks were discovered.

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Comparing literature

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kultur, München, Berlin 1994, p. 380

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Publications

Coppens, Martin, Noord-oost Nigeria, EIndhoven o.J., ill. 44 and back

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