Igbo Mask
Nigeria
Leather and vegetal fibers - 37 cm
Provenance:
Helen and Mace Neufeld collection, Los Angeles
Private collection, Belgium
Exhibited:
Los Angeles, The Frederick S. Wright Art Gallery, University of California, October 9 - November 5, 1984; New York, The Center for African Art, March 12 - June 16 1985; Washington D.C., The National Museum of African Art, July 31 - October 13, 1985; Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, January 5 - March 2, 1986, Igbo Arts. Community and Cosmos, cat.256
Published:
Cole and Aniakor, Igbo Arts. Community and Cosmos, Los Angeles, 1984, p.146, ill.256
Larson, 1986, fig. 103 (ill.)
"An unusual Ezzamgbo mask made from animal skin (without a wooden armature) with a fiber coiffure may relate to skin-covered masks of the Cross River region."
Bonnie E. Weston, Northeastern Region, in Igbo Arts. Community and Cosmos, 1985
