A Yoruba gelede mask Nigeria with a tied head scarf and a ribbed coiffure

A Yoruba gelede mask

Nigeria

with a tied head scarf and a ribbed coiffure, with painted decoration,

41cm long,

and a Yoruba egungun mask, with a beard, filed teeth, large ears, horns, two cockerels and a figure arching backwards, with pigment, 36cm long. (2)

Provenance

Joseph Gordon, Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, died 1969, thence by descent.