Cimier d'un esprit d'éléphant pour les danses de masques "ekpe" ·  Nigéria, Igbo, Ohuhu-Ngwa · ID: 3045005

Description

wood, tusks separately carved, polychrome painted,
In “ekpe” dances several pairs of headdresses appear. Present mask type, the masculine elephant-spirit is paired with a maiden-spirit considered his wife.

“Ekpe” festivals are year-end harvest celebrations thanking ancestors and Earth for abundant crops and children and honoring great warriors of the past.

Littérature comparée

Cole, Herbert M., Invention and Tradition, Munich, London, New York 2012, p. 110