Masque de la société "ogboni" ·  Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3048016

Description

bronze, base

Masks like this may have been sewn onto dignitaries clothing.

Thompson published a photograph of a Shango “bata” drum to which six bronze (or brass) maskettes are attached (Thompson,1971, chap. 1, fig.18).

Littérature comparée

Fagg, William, Yoruba, Sculpture of West Africa, New York 1982, p. 103, pl. 25 Thompson, Robert Farris, Black Gods and Kings, Los Angeles 1971, Ch 1, Ill. 18

Publications

AHDRC: 0161489