YORUBA, NIGERIA, early 20th century

Works from the Donald Friend Collection
Sydney
27 October 2013
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EGUNGUN HEADDRESS

YORUBA, NIGERIA, early 20th century

wood painted black, yellow and red, in the form of a human head with a small drum above the forehead, and large stylised ears, each carved with motifs of a lizard and crown, with a carved lizard figure on the back of the head between the stylised ears

51.5 cm height

Estimate: 
$4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $4,200 (inc. BP) in Auction 31 - 27 October 2013, Sydney
Provenance

Collected by Donald Friend in Nigeria, 1938–39

Related works

Two very similar works are Yoruba Headdress (Egungun), 19th–20th century, wood, pigment, iron nails, 40.6 cm height (accession number 1979.206.192), and Yoruba Helmet Mask (Egungun), 19th–20th century, wood, pigment, 40.3 cm height (accession number 1987.448.2), collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York