Ibibio or Ogoni headdress, Nigeria

13 inches
wood, polychrome, rope/plant fiber
ex private US collection

$500 plus shipping

For me this is a really fantastic and expressive object, and I love the use of polychrome on it and there are a couple of layers of polychrome on the headdress. I love the simple skull adorning the top of the head. There is a hole in the top of the skull in which something else was originally placed, but isn’t present any longer. Pigments like this have been documented on objects like this starting in the late 30’s to 40’s.

Some say this is Ibibio and some say it’s Ogoni. I lean towards Ibibio but have added Ogoni to the description as well.

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