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• Auction House:
  Deutscher and Hackett
• Sale Name:
  Works from the Donald Friend Collection - The Property of Attilio Guarrancino, Melbourne
• Sale Date:
  27 Oct 2013 ~ 2pm
• Lot #:
  6
• Lot Description:
  Yoruba, Nigeria
  Egungun Headdress, Early 20th Century
  wood painted black, yellow and red, in the form of a human head with a small drum above the forehead, and large stylised ears, each carved with motifs of a lizard and crown, with a carved lizard figure on the back of the head between the stylised ears
  51.5 cm height
• Provenance:
  Collected by Donald Friend in Nigeria, 1938–39
• Notes:
  Two very similar works are 'Yoruba Headdress (Egungun)', 19th–20th century, wood, pigment, iron nails, 40.6 cm height (accession number 1979.206.192), and 'Yoruba Helmet Mask (Egungun)', 19th–20th century, wood, pigment, 40.3 cm height (accession number 1987.448.2), collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Estimate:
  A$4,000 - 6,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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