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Rare Old Ekoi Skin Covered headdress figure

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Rare Old Ekoi Skin Covered headdress figure

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A Very rare, old and interesting headdress figure / sculpture from the Ekoi / Ejagham peoples, Cross River region, Nigeria, Africa. This carved wood headdress is overlaid with skin. It has the remains of inset wood teeth as well as twisted human hair coiffure and sits atop a woven rattan base. The Ekoi people, also known as Widekum or Ejagham, are an ethnic group on the southeastern border of Nigeria, extending eastward into Cameroon. Examples such as this are made by fastening skin while still pliable -- rather than tanned -- over a bone-line wooden carving. Teeth are often inserted; some of the rarer ones, such as this, also include human hair. Traditionally such headdresses are worn affixed to the top of a performer's head during a dance or ritual by their basket base. Measures 11.75 inches tall. From a private New Jersey collection.

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fair, loss to appendages, what remains is stable.

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Rare Old Ekoi Skin Covered headdress figure

Name: Rare Old Ekoi Skin Covered headdress figure
SKU: 72006574
Price: 600 USD
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