Description : From Okitipupa The curved rectangular face with tapered crest above, the face covered with brass sheets with embossed scarification on the cheeks, embossed ridges to the center of the nose and outlining the nostrils, pierced slits to the mouth and raised eyes, the forehead covered in blue cloth with central brass band with geometric outline, further brass strips bordering the face and surrounding the finial, the brass with reddish brown patina 19in. (50cm.) high PROVENANCE Dr and Mrs Robert Kuhn LITERATURE Drewal, Pemberton and Abiodun, 1989, p.137, fig.149 NOTES Henry Drewal (op.cit. p.145) writes: While some Agbo masks are horizontally oriented to evoke the image of spirits as they float on the surface of the water, others are vertical in composition. They may derive from western Ijo headdresses that influenced Bini water-spirit masks (known as igbile ) at Ughoton and another from the Yoruba lagoon town of Okitipupa with metal covering its surface [here he cites the present example]... The presence of metal in some of these water-spirit images may be partly because the metal is European, imported from across the seas beneath which the spirits live. Europeans themselves, being from overseas, are regarded in much African and specifically Ijo lore, as water beings associated with water spirits..
Prix: 4 025.00 USD🔓Accès libre sans carte bancaire.
Estimations(basse-haute) : 4000 USD-6000 USD🔓Accès libre sans carte bancaire.
À propos du lot
n° 118 Titre : Okitipupa, PÉRIODE : 1989.0 Christie's, Salle de vente
, New York, US🔓Accès libre sans carte bancaire. Titre de la vente : Important Tribal Art Date de la vente : 20/11/1997🔓Accès libre sans carte bancaire. Référence de l'enchère
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