Janusfaced helmet mask with figural superstructure ·  Nigeria, Ibibio/Anyang · ID: 3035668

Description

wood, painted in black, red and white (strongly darkened), nearly identical formed faces, each with a mixture of carved and painted tattoos, crowned by board-shaped projections with mirror glass inlay and four separate carved figures, two of them in colon style, slightly dam. (hand of one of the colon figures, arm of a female), missing parts (one arm of both of the female figures), cracks, rep. (breakage on one side of the head), rep. (nail at the lower rim);
the Anyang use similar masks and dance crests like most of the Cross River peoples, yet their ritual objects show more naturalistic features and only rarely do they cover them with hide.The Anyang are a small ethnic group in the Western part of the Cameroon Grassfields, to the east of the Boki, on the northern shores of the Cross River.

L’objet Janusfaced helmet mask with figural superstructure avec l’ID d’objet 3035668 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 75th tribal art auction dans 30 novembre 2013 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 325 a atteint un prix de vente de 1 800 €.

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Littérature comparée

Wittmer, Marcilene K. & William Arnett, Three Rivers of Nigeria, Atlanta 1978, p. 77, ill. 181 Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Encyclopedia of African Art and Culture, Munich 2009, p. 36 f.

Publications

Eisenhofer, Stefan (Hg.), Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika, Linz 1997, p. 321, ill. III/13.2

Exposition

"Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika, Tradition und Moderne in Süd-Nigeria", Schlossmuseum Linz, Austria, 3. Oktober 1997-5. April 1998