Description : Dance crest add to watchlistEket, Nigeria wood, dark brown patina, black paint, in form of a standing male figure, slightly bent legs supporting a cylindrical torso with protruding navel, broad round shoulders merging into free worked arms, a columnar neck supporting a spherical head with tribe-typical facial features: a bulging forehead with curved eyebrows and sickle-shaped eyes flanking a small snub nose, a thin mouth underneath, dam., missing parts (both lower arms, base), slight signs of abrasion, on base, the Eket are a small ethnic group belonging to the Ibibio, settling in about 45 villages. Just like the Ibibio the Eket have an ekpo society, a society of soothsayers, called idiong, a society named after the god of war ekong and the ogbom society worshipping the goddess of fertility. Dance crests like the present were used in ogbom masquerades and could reach a height up to 80 cm. H: 54 cm, (4838/001) Provenance Tom Phillips, London, Great Britain Martial Bronsin, Brussels, Belgium Jan Lundberg, Malmö, Sweden Literature Neyt, Francois, L'Art Eket, Paris 1979, fig. 2 Robbins, Warren M./Ingram Nooter, Nancy, African Art in American Collections, o.O. 1989, p. 277 Hahner-Herzog, Iris, Das Zweite Gesicht, Afrikanische Masken aus der Sammlung Barbier-Mueller, Genf/München/New York 1997, p. 51 f.
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