Water spirit mask · Nigeria, Ijaw · ID: 3037151
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Size
H: 77 cm
H: 30.3 inch
Description
wood, matt patina, painted black and white, fez-shaped calotte, carved with a board-shaped element, reminding of a crocodiles snout, an anthropomorphic mask face superimposed, pierced around the rim, rep. (breakage lower jaw), small missing part, fine cracks, traces of abrasion
The object Water spirit mask with the object ID 3037151 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 308.
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Expertise
Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, 04.06.2003, Munich
Comparing literature
Anderson, Martha G., Ways of the Rivers, Los Angeles 2002, p. 148 f.