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Dance crest featuring an expressive head with mouth wide open, showing teeth and symbolically sticking out the tongue. The headdress is arranged with stepped grooves. Wood covered with antelope skin, rattan, cords, remnants of white pigment, old patina and marks of use. Ekoï, Cross River, Southern Nigeria. Dimensions: 31 x 18 cm Provenance: Maître Marie Francoise Robert sale, Drouot, Paris, December 12, 2012, catalog number 137.

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Dance crest featuring an expressive head with mouth wide open, showing teeth and symbolically sticking out the tongue. The headdress is arranged with stepped grooves. Wood covered with antelope skin, rattan, cords, remnants of white pigment, old patina and marks of use. Ekoï, Cross River, Southern Nigeria. Dimensions: 31 x 18 cm Provenance: Maître Marie Francoise Robert sale, Drouot, Paris, December 12, 2012, catalog number 137.

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Estimate 400 - 700 EUR
Starting price  350 EUR

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