Cimier de danse janiforme · Nigéria, Ejagham · ID: 3050293
Vendu
300 €
Description
wood, leather,
Probably deriving from the Akparapong. The Akparabong are an Ejagham clan living along the Aweyong, an upper Cross River tributary.
They produce for their “ekpe” society refined skin-covered dance crests and helmet masks of a distinctive style often incorrectly thought of as classic Ekoi.
Littérature comparée
Wittmer, Marcilene K. & William Arnett, Three Rivers of Nigeria, Atlanta 1978, p. 78