Four Ibibio Polychrome Carved Wood Face Masks

Description:

Four Ibibio Polychrome Carved Wood Face Masks, Nigeria, includes two masks with snake and bird imagery, one with two soccer players and a snake (damage),and one with a man holding a snake, ht. to 26 in.

Provenance: (for the last two masks) Exhibited at the Free Library Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2011: More Than A Pretty Face: Masks from West and Central Africa from the Rosen Collection.

Literature: Published in Masks from West and Central Africa: A Celebration of Color and Form (Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2013).
Estimate $500-700


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