An Agbogho Mmuo Or Maiden Spirit polychrome helmet mask, Igb...

An Agbogho Mmuo Or Maiden Spirit polychrome helmet mask, Igbo Peoples, Southeast Nigeria, surmounted by a quadruple openwork crest, with kaolin and polychrome decoration, fragments of cloth, 36cm high Provenance: H. Kenneth Palmer collection Connecticut & New York, collected before 1980. The collection was appraised several times by Irwin Hersey associates, New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Irwin Hersey was an expert on primitive art and editor and publisher of the monthly Primitive Art newsletter which he founded in September 1978. He was an author of African tribal art, catalogue of the Fred and Rita Richmond collection of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and he also wrote primitive art of Indonesia from 1971 to 1977 he was the American editor of the quarterly French journal Arts d'Afrique Noire.

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