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Lot 222
Ibibio Mask, Nigeria
12 May 2012, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$2,500 - US$3,500
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height 19 1/2in (49.5cm)
mfon, probably carved by Akpan Chukba, featuring a delicately carved female, "mami-wata", wearing a parted coiffeur with twisted downward-
pointing elements, a central column in the form of a second miniature head, the neck with a choker rising from between the parted tresses of the main mask; encrusted patina with pigment and prominent white coloration on teeth.
Provenance:
Field collected by Reverend Koeper, a missionary in Eastern Nigeria in the 1930's.
Jack and Constance Wallinga, Minneapolis, acquired from the above in 1963
Published:
Segy, Ladislas, Masks of Black Africa, 1976, fig. 135
Exhibited:
St. Paul Science Museum, October, 1968
mfon, probably carved by Akpan Chukba, featuring a delicately carved female, "mami-wata", wearing a parted coiffeur with twisted downward-
pointing elements, a central column in the form of a second miniature head, the neck with a choker rising from between the parted tresses of the main mask; encrusted patina with pigment and prominent white coloration on teeth.
Provenance:
Field collected by Reverend Koeper, a missionary in Eastern Nigeria in the 1930's.
Jack and Constance Wallinga, Minneapolis, acquired from the above in 1963
Published:
Segy, Ladislas, Masks of Black Africa, 1976, fig. 135
Exhibited:
St. Paul Science Museum, October, 1968














