Janiform dance crest

Nigeria, Ejagham

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wood, leather,
Probably deriving from the Akparapong. The Akparabong are an Ejagham clan living along the Aweyong, an upper Cross River tributary.

They produce for their "ekpe" society refined skin-covered dance crests and helmet masks of a distinctive style often incorrectly thought of as classic Ekoi.

Wittmer, Marcilene K. & William Arnett, Three Rivers of Nigeria, Atlanta 1978, p. 78

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