Yoruba Egungun Headdress with Lizard Motifs

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Yoruba, Nigeria, Egungun headdress, 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. 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

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