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Headdress

Headdress, between 1850 and 1900

  • Igbo, African

Wood

  • Overall: 27 × 5 3/8 × 4 5/8 inches (68.6 × 13.7 × 11.7 cm) Including base: 27 7/8 × 6 11/16 × 6 11/16 inches (70.8 × 17 × 17 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art

79.164

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Details

Mrs. DeGroef. ca. 1950, collected by Mr. Polfiev in (Nigeria). Marc Leo Felix (Brussels, Belgium)

1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, cat. no. 37.

Igbo, African, Headdress, between 1850 and 1900, wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art, 79.164.

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