Altar Mask
They do not dance or participate in dances, they are sacred masks that are kept in the sanctuary.
MFG-60
Nigeria
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Fire Mask
These masks belong to the secret society idiongThey represent an ancestor tormented by an illness.
MFG-61
Priestess of Cult Gelede
The Gelede cult, practiced mainly by the Yoruba Westerners, it is a cult in honor of living or deceased elderly women.
MYA-30
Cimera
A cymer representing a human head, with horns, on which appears a female character painted in red, sitting and gripping the horns.
MCYC-45
Maternity
Maternity sitting on a stool with a cup of offerings et cetera hands.
MTR-63
Fetish
Large fetish widely spread in male and female versions throughout large areas of the former Zaire, now Democratic Republic of the Congo,…
FET-68
Epa mask, Knight
The cult Epaalso called elefon in Benin, it is practiced mainly in the north, at parties of the same name that last…
MCYC-46
Tinkerbell
Bronze bell intended for ritual and divinatory uses. He's missing the badass.
MYA-28
Facial Mask
Ancient and rare ibibian mask intended for the cult of ancestors.
MFANT-170
Spear Tips
Launch points of the Nigerian Neolithic Period, a prehistoric era in which man bases his subsistence on agriculture, livestock, hunting and…
ARM-42
Cola box
Bronze box to offer welcome queue to brand visitors.
BRN-84
Royal Plate
It belongs to the so-called cutting art. These plates began to be made from the century onwards.
BRN-85
Ritual Cup
Good size anthropomorphic cup. so-called cups Koro are statues with a large ventral cavity in the form of eight, intended to drink…
RCPT-30
Karim Shoulder Mask
Mask formed by a head on a kind of inverted “U” wood that serves as a base and would constitute the trunk…
MHB-4
Funeral couple
Curious couple of stone of origin and dating indeterminate, but that by the jumping eyes of the characters and being pieces coming…
PDR-7
Idiok mask
In the village Ibibio Just as in Anang there is the secret society Ekpo which is responsible for the cult of ancestors…
MFANT-176
Head of Oni
Ife was the holy city of the Yoruba populations.
BRN-90
Hunter
Figure of clay that represents a hunter on the return of the hunt with the small deer that he has collected behind…
TRRC-64
Couple of Ibedjis
In the case of the “ibeji”, in the Yoruba language “ibedji” means “twin”, if one or both twins die, the mother, on…
GML-23
Ibedji Androgino
In the case of the “ibeji”, in the Yoruba language “ibedji” means “twin”, if one or both twins die, the mother, on…
GML-24
Female Couple From Ibedjis
Classic pair of ibedjis with long arms separated from the body.
GML-25
Princess
Head of a princess or a young queen.These heads are a symbol of the continuity and permanence of royalty.
BRN-120
Ikenga
An important figure in culture Igbo are the “Alusi” or geniuses of nature, responsible for disease and death, and charged with punishing…
TRRC-65
Head of Oni
Ife's art is characterized by the beauty and balance of its lines and by a penetrating realism and serenity that seems to…
BRN-121
