Headdress "gelede" ·  Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3052212

Description

wood, pigments,

The members of the “gelede” society worship the “Great Mother”, the goddess of fertility.

“Gelede” festivals take place every year between march and may at the beginning of the new planting season. They have been described as real spectacles. The mask dancers wear headdresses of enormous variety of shapes and colourful costumes to celebrate the different roles of the villagers in society (market traders, blacksmiths, hunters, mothers, priestesses, etc…).