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Shoulder mask ·  Nigéria, Waja · ID: 3032745

Vendu 2 000 €
Provenance
Martien Coppens, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Adalbert von Alföldy, Eislingen, Germany

Description

wood, slightly encrusted matt patina, remains of pigments, clamp-shaped corpus, a long neck supporting a narrow head with beak-like mouth and crested coiffure, mirror glass inlay in the area of the eyes and at the temples, trimming with plant fibre, rep. (crack), traces of abrasion;
the Waja live in an area to the north of the upper Benue River. It was not before the 1960s that their large shoulder masks were discovered.


Littérature comparée

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kultur, München, Berlin 1994, p. 380


Publications

Coppens, Martin, Noord-oost Nigeria, EIndhoven o.J., ill. 44 and back

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