Leopard headdress

Nigeria, Yoruba

Provenance	Size	Starting price / estimated price
Bert Garrebeek, Beersel, Belgium Almut Zintl-Wiegand, Worms, Germany	H: 10.2 inch	1500 EUR plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance

wood, pigments, base

This beautiful headdress was possibly the property of the "egungun" society, which is dedicated to ancestor worship. Drewal noted in 1980 that animal imagery was common in "egungun" masking in order to demonstrate the powers of transformation possessed by supernatural forces (Drewal 1980, p. 85).

Drewal, Henry John, African Artistry, Atlanta 1980

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