Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 20th February 2024
Lot 119
A Benue dance headdress
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £189
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Description
A Benue dance headdress
Nigeria
carved as a chameleon transforming into a bicycle and with a bound cockerel to the top, with polychrome decoration,
38.5cm high, 51cm long.
Provenance
Monika Wengraf, London.
Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, Tribal Art & Antiquities, 20 September 2017, lot 420.
Romy Rey Collection, London.