Headdress (Oglinye)

Idoma people, Nigeria, early 20th c.

Carved wood with pigments and glass eyes

31” h x 5.25” w x 7” d (78.74 x 13.34 x 17.78 cm)

Price: $3,500

 
 

A fine and soulful Idoma dance crest associated with the Oglinye society. For a very similar example, possibly by the same workshop, see Warkow (1977: 54).

REFERENCES

Warkow, Stewart J. African Sculpture from the Stewart J. Warkow Collection. New York, NY:

Queens Council on the Arts, 1977.