Masque ·  Nigéria, Ibibio · ID: 3040460

Description

wood, polychrome paint, coiffure with two lobes, crest in form of a small head rising from columnar neck, coiffures with drillings, pierced around the rim, min. dam., missing parts through insect caused damage, traces of abrasion;
probably depicting “mami wata”.

Littérature comparée

Drewal, Henry John, Mami Wata, Los Angeles 2008, p. 118, ill. 6.2