Details
A YORUBA EPA MASK
BY FASHIKU ALAYE OF IKERIN, circa 1937
Helmet mask with broad open mouth, large oval eye sockets, square ears, surmounted by a large seated maternity figure on round base with openwork crested coiffure, holding recumbent child on lap surrounded by six smaller male and female figures in various poses, one maternity, two with figures surmounted on their heads, two holding the legs of the large figure, another at the rear, red, white, blue and black pigment.
56in. high (124.3cm.)
Literature
Carroll, 1967, no. 129, color plate facing p. 53; po. 167
Exhibited
New York, The Center for African Art, Yoruba, Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, 1989. This exhibition travelled to Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago; Washington, D. C., The National Museum of African Art; Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art; New Orleans, The New Orleans Museum of Art; Atlanta, The High Museum of Art
