Art Institute of Chicago
Headdress (Ago Egungun)
Ojerinde (died about 1914)LinkedCulture matchlcp-7242a3ac187f
- Date
- Mid–late 19th century
- Medium
- Wood and pigment
- Culture
- Nigeria
- Department
- Arts of Africa
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 31581
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Egungun , a widespread Yoruba masquerade, is staged to honor the ancestors and the newly deceased, who continue to influence the lives of their kin. Organized at funerals, on family occasions, and during annual or biennial festivals, the different types of egungun are each associated with a distinctive cloth costume, some of which include a wooden mask or headdress. The tufted hairstyle of this example mimics the flap of a hunter’s cap that hides protective medicines.
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- Credit line
- Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson
- Provenance
- John J. Klejman (died 1995), Klejman Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1969 [acquisition documentation in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1969.
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- Object type
- AAT300138758
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