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Africa Edo peoples, Nigeria Mask, Ighodo Before 1897 Wood, incrustation, pigment, fiber H. 24 in. (62.2 cm) Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection Indiana University Art Museum, 78.11.2 This mask, whose Edo name means "lizard," was carved for a cult devoted to Igbile, a river spirit. It was one of a small group of masks at Ughoton, the port for the Benin kingdom, that was displayed with the hope of enlisting supernatural powers to drive away the British Punitive Expedition, which sacked the kingdom's capital in 1897. |
