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Headdress

Long, fish shaped carving Igbo, Ekpeya, SE Nigeria, about 1904
Accession Number 4.4.05.2

The men’s ogbukere ‘secret society’ used this crocodile headdress in a festival masquerade of the same name. Ogbukere performs for entertainment but members of the society help maintain law and order in the community.