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Rare masque zoomorphe "gugwom" (Crocodile?)

Nigéria, Bénoué du Nord, Montol / Geomai
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Provenance
Berndt Helleberg, Stockholm, Sweden
Taille
L: 60 cm
L: 23.6 inch

Description

wood, red and white pigment, missing part, insect caused damage, base

The mask was worn horizontally on the head. Arnold Rubin (1988) reported that the mask type appeared on harvest festivities and chiefly burials.

One of the rare comparable masks illustrated in Wittmer (1978), p. 94, ill. 219 (AHDRC 0097841).

Littérature comparée

Wittmer, Marcilene K. & William Arnett, Three Rivers of Nigeria, Atlanta 1978, p. 94, ill. 219
Afrique
Masques

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