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Description : wood, pigment, inscribed EG, base The Ijaw believed that they shared the rivers dominating their environment with beings they called the Water People and they paid tribute to these quasi-human spirits in their masquerades. A myth from the Kalabari (eastern Ijaw city-state) tells how a woman abducted by water spirits returned to teach her townspeople the plays she had seen beneath the water. Published in: Werth, Albert Johannes, Art of Africa, African Art from South African Collections/Kuns van Afrika, Afrika-Kuns uit Suid-Afrikaanse Versamelings, 1970, p. 171 YALE: 0025795 AHDRC: 0095706 Continent: Africa
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