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GothamGallery Fine African Art - Nigeria Ogoni Tribal Dance Mask

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Superb African Nigeria Ogoni Tribal Mask

 

Inches:                    Height: 17.5 Inches
Centimeters:          Height: 44.5 Centimeters 
                               Measurement Mask Only
Material:                 Wood, Pigment
Estimated Age:        Mid 20th Century
Condition:              Fair - Good
Remarks:                Highly stylized dance mask unique form articulated jaw aged surface
Shipping:                US East Coast - Estimated $15.00
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CONDITION
Wood deterioration, chips and scrapes, worn areas, age cracks, lost of pigment, overall condition good.  Thank you and please view my other items.

BACKGROUND
The Ogoni live to the east of the Niger delta, in a fertile area rich in petroleum resources. Despite the efforts of Christian missionaries, they have retained a vital, regionally varied masquerading activity that is in part deeply rooted in their own tradition and in part adopted from neighboring ethnic groups such as the Ibibio or Ijo. Ogoni mask dances serve a great variety of functions, which, depending on the region, can extend from pure entertainment to participation in funeral services and harvest festivals, all the way to the implementation of judicial verdicts. The masks of wild animals are danced, acrobatically, on the occasion of agrarian rituals.


Painter Fred Uhlman words - Most of the artists I admired, Picasso, Modigliani, Deraini, to mention only a few, had collected African art and had been profoundly influenced by it.  Shortly afterwards I bought the Baule Fetish and the Baule bobbin which are still two of the finest pieces in my collection.  It is easy to see why I bought them and why from that moment I have never stopped collecting.  The head of the bobbin or heddle - pulley which is after all only a functional object for the purpose of weaving seemed to me then and today as beautiful as a Greek goddess.  The fetish moved me as deeply as the bobbin by its silent tragic dignity and its air of profound meditation.

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