Yoruba drums.
Height: 56 cm.
Material: wood, animal skin, sacrificial blood.
These drums played an important role in the Ogboni society. It is a couple. A drum shows a mother with a child on her back.
Literature: one is published in Esther A. Dagan 'Drums. The heartbeat of Africa. 1993.
Literature: One in Esther A. Dagan 'Drums. The heartbeat of Africa'.
Idoma mask
Material: wood
Height: 29 cm
Edo, Court of Benin, rattle-staff with three figures.
Material: wood, cowrie shells.
Height: 140 cm.
Age: 19th century
A Rattle-staff such as one in: Kate Azra:'Royal Art of Benin. The Perls collection.' The Metropolitan museum of Art. New York 1992. P. 94 fig. 26.
Igbo maiden spirit mask agbogho mmuo
Material: wood.
Height: 63 cm.
Benin hen
Material: wood with ivory eyes.
Height: 47 cm.
Yoruba Oluju-foforo mask.
Material: wood
Height: 49,5 cm.
Oloju-foforo means 'the owner of deep-set eyes'. The mask is used in Osi Ilorin, where it performs in honour of the ancestor god Baba Osi ('father of Osi').In surrounding villages the mask is considered to be an Epa mask. The kneeling man is the priest Eshu.
Material: wood
Height: 33 cm
Bought from Nji Komo Salifou in 1984.
Ibibio sickness mask idiok ekpo
Material: wood
Height: 25 cm
Urhobo mask
Material: wood.
Height: 29 cm.
Longuda 'chandu' mother-and-child pot
Material: terracotta.
Height: 56 cm.
The Longuda are a small ethnic group in eastern Nigeria, about 14.000 people. The Longuda, the Waya and the Cham-Mwana made figurative terracotta pots for the curing of desease or the protection of foetus and young babier/children. In order to be able to give his diagnostics, the diviner consults his own terracotta figuren, one male, one female called chandu.
Urhobo mami wata sculpture
Material: wood.
Height: 45,5 cm.
Yoruba igbuke ibeji, Oyo
Material: wood, glass beads,
Height: 38 cm.
Idoma mask
Material: wood.
Height: 36 cm.