Yorùbá and Esugbie workshop
Hunter’s Egungun Headdress
Yoruba, Abeokuta region, 1939
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Wood, cowrie shells, hide, black pigment, 18.2 H x 19.8 W x 17 D cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Vivian L.C. Anderson, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number
2001.5
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2001; Vivian L.C. Anderson, Bethesda, MD; collected by the donor in Nigeria c. 1970. Purchased from a trader who said he acquired it from a member of a secret society living in the village of Ileja.
