Ekoi helmet mask

An Ekoi wood and skin helmet mask, in the form of a wood structure with skin stretched tautly across it and secured in place with wood pegs, one side in the form of a grotesque large male human head, the skin darkened, with a ridge down the forehead, three raised bosses to either side of the pierced eyes, with semi-circular lug ears, the grinning mouth slightly open and with pointed bone inset teeth, the other side of the mask in the form of two smaller female human heads, each face lighter in shade than the male face, with raised darkened areas representing cicatrisation marks on the foreheads and besides the eyes, with protruding darkened lips and metal inset teeth representing the coiffure (only a few remaining) the whole surmounted by a conical projection, originally with wood peg insets 18 in (46 cm).
Sotheby catalog 15.7.1975
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