Mask, wooden, used by Ikpo Secret Society in Calabar

Made:: 1701-1932 in Calabar

Mask, wooden, used by Ekpo Secret Society in Calabar, Nigeria, 18th to 20th centuries

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A114521

Materials:: wood

type:: mask

credit:: Sotheby's

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Mask, wooden, used by Ikpo Secret Society in Calabar

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