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Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture (22)

Idoma janiform headpiece (ungulali) Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1940 item# 971574 (stock# I33720w)
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The expressive and dynamic wooden dance headdress showing opposing, stylized heads with long, horn-like projections (probably hair braids), linear scarification, and scoop-shaped faces. Such multi-faced or janus-faced headdresses represented the lead flute played during various celebratory and funereal masquerades. Very fine, aged patina with old losses to the very tips of the 'horns' and the base form; old stable 'check' in the wood on one side. Traces of organic (chalk-derived) ...click for details

A fine Mossi antelope headpiece Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1940 item# 954519 (stock# M64992)
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For the Mossi, masks were used primarily during funerals. This graceful animal head cap (zazaido) from the Mossi people shows the distinct features of a small antelope (duiker). The blackened, pronounced crest between the horns possibly alludes to the coiffure of a Fulani woman or to a rooster's feathered head. The mask headpiece is painted with organic pigments in the classic black, red, and white color triad seen on much West and Central African sculpture. The natural materials used for th ...click for details

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