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Description : Janusheaded headdress ekeleke Igbo, Nigeria wood, dark brown patina, kaolin, spherical cap, carved with two heads, facing outward, painted white, while the facial features and raised scarification marks are dyed in black, crowned by a high towering male figure with extremely lengthened trunk and a snouted animal that holds the humans shoulders with its forelegs, slightly dam., missing parts (nose and left hand of the standing figure), place of reapair (both lower arms of the anthropomorphic being), traces of insect caused damage, paint rubbed off, encrusted patina in some areas, used in ekeleke masquerades, a festival honouring water spirits owu. Ekeleke is a finely choreographed performance by several men wearing similar headdresses, imported, lace-like cloth head coverings and skirts or wrappers of Indian madras cloth, locally called George. Virtuosic individual dances alternate with sets danced in unison, activated by a small gong and a drum orchestra playing on the sidelines. H: 56 cm, (4765/003) Provenance Private Collection, Corsica, France Literature Ross, Doran H. (ed.), Visions of Africa, The Jerome L. Joss Collection of African Art at Ucla, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles1994, p. 90 f.
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