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Hip Mask Benin Culture

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Hip Mask

Benin-Culture, Nigeria
around 1700
Bronze
17,5 cm

Edited in the net since july 2017
Hip Mask:

Masks such as this were worn by certain high ranking officials or chiefs in Benin over a tie on the costume at the left hip



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Similar objects :  
Illustration:
Pitt-Rivers, 1900, figures 86-87    
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Von Luschan, 1919: pp 375-376.    
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