Tribal Art & Antiquities - 22nd September 2020
Lot 309
A Yoruba gelede mask Nigeria with a tied head scarf and a ribbed coiffure
Estimate £300 - £500
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Description
A Yoruba gelede mask
Nigeria
with a tied head scarf and a ribbed coiffure, with painted decoration,
41cm long,
and a Yoruba egungun mask, with a beard, filed teeth, large ears, horns, two cockerels and a figure arching backwards, with pigment, 36cm long. (2)
Provenance
Joseph Gordon, Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, died 1969, thence by descent.