Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Face Mask (idiok ekpo)
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Face Mask (idiok ekpo)
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Image View:
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Overall view from front (black and white photo of black object)
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Creator:
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unknown (Ibibio)
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Location:
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repository: Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (Paris, Île-de-France, France) 73.1989.3.1
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Location Note:
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From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
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Date:
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20th century; before 1989 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Ibibio; Nigerian
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Style Period:
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Ibibio
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Work Type 1:
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ceremonial mask
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Work Type 2:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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wood; black paint
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Technique:
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carving (processes); painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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32.2 cm (height) x 19.5 cm (width) x 15.5 cm (depth)
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Subjects:
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deities; Performing arts; ritual object; African; dance
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Description:
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The Ibibio-speaking people are from southern Nigeria. They are mostly found in Akwa Ibom, Cross River,and on the Eastern Part of Abia. The figure, Idiok Ekpo, is designed to inspire both fear and respect. In Ibibio culture it is said that a doer of evil deeds will become a ghost like Idiok Ekpo. These masks are painted dark and have facial distortions. Idiok Ekpo's counterpart is a good and beautiful mask, Mfon Ekpo. Men in the ancestral spirit association called Ekpo play out the drama. (Source: Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa [website]; https://stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-AFRICAN-FAFFM-IEM-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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