Description : Mask oba maoro add to watchlistVillage: Anaku, Benue State wood, remains of polychrome paint, of oval hollowed form, elongated pierced eyes are flanking a partly open-worked forehead-nose-ridge with horizontal incisions, surmounted by a high appendage with triangular piercings, pierced around the rim, fissures, slight signs of abrasion, on metal base, this mask was used in context of jurisdictional ceremonies. H: 56 cm, (4872/002) Provenance collected in situ June 1976 Published in Eisenhofer, Stefan (Hg.), Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika - Tradition und Moderne in Südnigeria, Linz 1997, p. 339 Literature Cole, Herbert M./Aniakor, Chike C., Igbo Arts, Community and Cosmos, Los Angeles 1984, p. 115, ill. 215 Robbins, Warren M., Ingram Nooter, Nancy, African Art in American Collections, 1989, p. 261, ill. 687
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