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AFRICAN -EKET HEADRESS - NIGERIA (Midtown East)

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An Eket Headdress (ogbom); Nigeria. A wooden female figure, standing on a narrow pedestal with holes around the lower perimeter for attachment. Having a large, rounded head with a cylindrical neck. The sloping face with sharp edges, having raised brows, inset eyes, a raised nose and diminutive, expressive mouth. Strong shoulders with rounded arms and fingers. Large breasts with carved nipples. Having an enlarged abdomen with a protruding navel. The female genitalia carved. The legs are bent with feet having carved toes. Having muscular, extended buttocks. Scarification lines on the torso, verso. The surface being dark/light brown with encrustations overall. Varied areas with glossy patina. Height: 27 1/4 inches 69.2 cm. Provenance: Henri Kamer, Paris & New York.

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The full-figure headdresses worn in Ogbom dances," notes Herbert Cole (Igbo Arts - Community and Cosmos, Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1984, p. 174), "are among the most dynamic and finest Igbo works of art, comparable in quality to any sculpture from tropical Africa. The dance is known among Ibeku, Olokoro, Oboro, Ngwa, and Ozu-Item peoples, but versions employing carved headdresses seem to have been moribund in the early 1940s. Ogbom displays honored Ala (Earth) and called attention to her role in human and agricultural fertility and increase. In some areas it was a harvest celebration. During part of the performance women entered the arena to dance and sing around the Ogbom carrier.Depictions of Ogbom are overwhelmingly female (Cole, ibid.). The stylistic canons are present - "the face as a curving plane with sharp edges, the economical handling of body and limbs, and the disproportionate emphasis on the head. Overall, Ogbom carvings have great vitality as well as poise and dignity." (Murray, K.C., "Ogbom," Nigerian Field 10: 127-131)

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