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Igbo and Afikpo

Mask (Mba)

Igbo/Afikpo, 1933

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Mask (Mba)

Igbo/Afikpo, 1933

Physical Qualities Wood; black, white, red, and orange paint; raffia; string; metal eye hooks, 15 3/8 × 4 7/16 × 2 3/4 in. (39 × 11.3 × 7 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Barry and Toby T. Hecht, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number 1991.351
William and Robert Arnett, Atlanta, Georgia
Wittmer, Marcilene A., and William Arnett. "Three Rivers of Nigeria: Art of the Lower Niger, Cross and Benue from the Collection of William and Robert Arnett." Atlanta: The High Museum of Art, 1978, pp. 33, ill. 76.

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