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Wooden Headdress
Local Name:Gelede
Wooden Headdress (Gelede) A wooden headdress surmounted by a super structure of two human figures seated on a carved platform. It has prominent facial features including pierced pupils and horizontal tribal marks on both cheeks. It is painted white and blue.
1967
Wooden Headdress
Local Name:Gelede
A wooden headdress featuring a diagonal pattern and animal motifs on its head. It has prominent facial features with pierced pupils and tribal marks.
1987
Wooden Face Mask
Local Name:Ekpo
A wooden face mask with a broad forehead and pronounced facial features. It is coloured black and has raffia attached to its edges.
1974
Wooden Face Mask
Local Name:Ekpo
A wooden face mask featuring a bird and other abstract figures on its cap-like head, pronounced facial features, and holes around the edges.
1960
Wooden Face Mask
Local Name:(Ekpo)
A wooden facemask with carved horns on the head, hollow eyes, a flat nose, a small mouth, and ears. It has engraved marks on the horns, the head and the eyelids.
1959
Wooden Face Mask
Local Name:Ekpo
A wooden face mask with ridged head, bulgy forehead, hollow eyes, studs on both temples and the nose, and holes around the edges. It is black in colour.
Wooden Face Mask
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A wooden bulbous mask with a geometrically designed, stud-like cap carved to the head. Beneath the eyes are slits, vertical tribal marks on the forehead and cheeks, and a visible dentition. It is perforated around the edge, and it is painted black, brown and indigo.
1958
Wooden Headdress
Local Name:Emedjo
Wooden headdress representing a female figure with a bolar hat carved necklace and bracelets, pointed breasts and both hands resting on the hips. It is carved to a segmented circular base-coloured blue and white. It is supported on a hollowed cone shaped base to which is attached, a basket with textile around the rim.
1974
Wooden Headdress
Local Name:Emedjo
Wooden Headdress representing a male figure with a skull cap and oron mark facial features. The body is wrapped in plant fibre with an attached loop on one side. It is carved to a hollowed base to which a coiled plant twine is attached
1972
Wooden Headdress
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Wooden headdress representing a female seated on a stool, with a crown on the head, pointed breasts and protruding naval. It is holding a gong on one hind and a striker on the other. It is carved to a cylindrical base with zigzag designs. It is coloured with red, black, white and blue pigments and supported on a basket
1965
Wooden Headdress
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Wooden headdress with a circular panel that has stylized twin human faces on both surfaces. It is coloured with green pigment and it is carved to a hollowed cone-shaped base to which a coiled plaint twine is attached.
1987
Wooden Headdress
Local Name:Emedjo
Wooden Headdress representing seated twin female figures with an animal relief supported on their heads. It is coloured red and white and it is carved to a rectangular base support on a woven cane
1974
Wooden Face Mask
Local Name:Ekpo
A wooden face mask with a cap-shaped head, pronounced facial features including an extended chin, and holes around the edges.
1974
Wooden Face Mask
Local Name:Ekpo
A wooden face mask with a vertical mark on its broad forehead, hollow bulgy eyes, a pointed nose, a beak -like mouth and visible dentition. It is painted black, red and white.
1959
Wooden Face Mask
Local Name:Ekpo
A wooden mask with a cap-like perforated structure on the head, semi-circular engravings that meets at the center of the hollowed eyes, knob like nose and two studs at the temples. The dentition is visible and it is black in colour.
1959
Wooden Headdress
Local Name:Iruba
Wooden Headdress representing a male figure with a bolar hat and three projections at the back of the head. Attached to the chest is a carved gourd and around the waist a ranged textile. It is coloured with white pigment and carved to a circular base on a hollowed cone-shaped support
1974
Wooden Headdress
Local Name:Ileghe
Wooden Headdress, in form of an oval panel with two human heads and a cross-shape on the front surface. It has perforations on the rear surface and it is coloured with green, red and white pigments it is carved to a hollowed cone-shaped base.
1969
Wooden Headdress
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Wooden Headdress with a circular panel. On the surface of the panel are rectangular mirrors, reliefs of reptiles, gourds, canoes and twin human heads. It is coloured with blue and orange pigments and carved to a hollow cone-shaped base to which is attached coiled plant twine.
1972
Wooden Headdress
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A Janus faced wooden headdress with rectangular panel that has rectangular mirrors attached to both surface. On the heads of both faces are carved caps and a vertical line on the foreheads. It has a coiled plant twine attached to the base.
1973