Galerie Peter Herrmann Ancient Art from Africa

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Thermoluminescence - Expertise soon	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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Illustration:

Pitt-Rivers, 1900, figures 86-87

Von Luschan, 1919: pp 375-376.

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