Very beautiful mask in wood and kaolin, which comes from the Ogoni ethnic group of Nigeria

Height: 20 cm, width: 14 cm

The Ogoni people

Although they were relatively spared by the slave trade, because of their relative isolation, and then resisted English colonization from 1901 until 1914, the Ogoni, who live in southern Nigeria in the Port Harcourt region, were unable to resist oil greed: Killed (2,000 dead in the 1990s) or displaced by the Nigerian army, many survivors went into exile.

Ogoni Art

Ogoni artists produced large dolls and horizontal crests, but they are best known for their small masks whose main characteristic is an articulated jaw that usually reveals wooden teeth

The Ogoni Mask

Even though it does not have the articulated jaw we talked about above, this mask is representative of the Ogoni style

Variations of the name Ogoni

The name Ogoni can be declined in different ways: Eleme, Gokana, Kana, Kanas, Khana, Ogonis