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Igbo Cap Mask with Tripartite Coiffure
Compact, white-faced Igbo mask with horns and triparite coiffure. This is a cap mask, worn atop a costume by a dancer who saw out through a screen in the character’s neck, as opposed to through the eyes of the mask. This mid-century object was discovered with a cache of other African masks and figures in the rear of a warehouse locker. Along with others, this mask was wrapped in newspaper dated June 16, 1974. Other items in these boxes were similarly from southern Nigeria, areas caught up in the Biafran Civil War, 1967 – 1970. Ex collection Sidney and Gae Berman. For a related mask, see object #91 in Dartmouth College’s Nigerian Splendor and object #222 in Igbo Arts: Community and Cosmos by Herbert Cole and Chike Aniakor.
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