AN IBO WHITE MAIDEN MASK, Agbogho mmuo, the tall headdress pierced and carved with circlets and bands of hair pins, traces of blue and white pigments, with attached coloured cloth about the edge

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AN IBO WHITE MAIDEN MASK, Agbogho mmuo, the tall headdress pierced and carved with circlets and bands of hair pins, traces of blue and white pigments, with attached coloured cloth about the edge
37cm. high

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Cf. a "mother of spirits" mask in the St. Louis Art Museum with a similarly high coiffure, illustrated in Cole, H.M., and Aniakor, C.C., Igbo Arts Community and Cosmos, Los Angeles, 1984, p. 125, fig. 227.

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