Jukun crest mask, 20th c.
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A crest mask with polychrome motifs and embedded seeds. Nigeria, Jukun. 20th century.19 1/2"h x 8 1/2"w x 11 1/2"d.
Provenance: Inventory and Collection from the Estate of Merton D. Simpson.
Catalog Notes: This is a male dance crest or an "aku-wunu" from the Jukun people of Nigeria. Though abstraced the dance crest represents a human head. According to C. K. Meek, noted British anthropologist, the open work oval represents a ringlet that Jukun men wore on their shaven heads. (For discussion of the present mask type see: Richard Fardon, Fusions - Masquerades and thought style east of the Niger-Benue confluence, West Africa, UCLA 1969, p. 103 f., Jucunoid masquerades - fusion refracted by gender and animality). For a similar object see Zemanek-Munster, Wurzburg, Germany, "Art Tribal", September 19, 2009, lot 243.
H: 49 cm, (5025/003)
Provenance: Inventory and Collection from the Estate of Merton D. Simpson.
Catalog Notes: This is a male dance crest or an "aku-wunu" from the Jukun people of Nigeria. Though abstraced the dance crest represents a human head. According to C. K. Meek, noted British anthropologist, the open work oval represents a ringlet that Jukun men wore on their shaven heads. (For discussion of the present mask type see: Richard Fardon, Fusions - Masquerades and thought style east of the Niger-Benue confluence, West Africa, UCLA 1969, p. 103 f., Jucunoid masquerades - fusion refracted by gender and animality). For a similar object see Zemanek-Munster, Wurzburg, Germany, "Art Tribal", September 19, 2009, lot 243.
H: 49 cm, (5025/003)
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Jukun crest mask, 20th c.
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