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English: Mask, Ijo peoples, Nigeria, Mid-20th century, Wood, pigment, iron, plant fiber
This mask of a water spirit combines a skull-like human head with a crocodile's snout and a fish's tail. When performed at annual festivals, it is worn horizontally on top of the dancer's head, it's imagery facing the sky alluding to the spirits' view from their underwater abode. Water spirits are associated with positive aspects of change, new objects, new wealth and new ideas. (National Museum of African Art) |
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