Boki Headdress, Cross River Region, Nigeria

Lot Closed

November 21, 07:43 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

African Art from the Collection of Dr. Austin Newton

Boki Headdress, Cross River Region, Nigeria

The interior with a round label printed "B.M.S. COLLECTION", and inscribed in black ink "L. 16."; one side of the neck inscribed in white ink "6005"

Height: 8 ⅞ in (22.5 cm)

Baptist Missionary Society (inv. no. L. 16.)
Charles Ratton, Paris
Austin Newton, Princeton, New Jersey, acquired from the above by the early 1970s