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Description : Tribal Art: Figurally carved dance headdress Ibibio, Nigeria wood, brown, partly encrusted patina, black paint, kaolin, calotte with pierced rim for attachment, carved with a sitting male figure, its symmetrical arranged body showing well-balanced round forms, typical snub nose with flat tip, carved with sun helmet and watch, slightly dam. (nose), paint partly peeled off, the ethnical group of the Ogoni lives in the southeastern part of Nigeria. With their neighbours, the Ibibio, they share the language and various cultural similarities, above all the masks with hinged jaw and the puppet figures. H: 51 cm, (5249/009) H: 20.1 inch Provenance: Christie's Paris, Art Africain, Océanien et Précolombien, Mardi 6 décembre 2005, lot 188 Literature: Wittmer, Marcilene K., Arnett, William, Three Rivers of Nigeria, Atlanta 1978, p. 51, ill. 124 Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kultur, München, Berlin 1994, p. 313
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