YORUBA EGUNGUN HEADDRESSES ARCHIVES

The headdresses below have been sold and are left here for reference and educational purposes.

For UNSOLD Yoruba Egungun headresses GO TO EGUNGUN HEADDRESSES 1 PAGE (31-51)

and GO TO EGUNGUN HEADDRESSES 2 PAGE (61-81)

Egungun
Headdress 67
13.5" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 73
16" high
SOLD



Egungun
Headdress 64
11.5" high x 13" wide
SOLD



Egungun
Headdress 69
10" high
SOLD



Egungun
Headdress 70
15.5" high
SOLD



Egungun
Headdress 71
10" high
SOLD


Egungun
Headdress 40
10.5" high x 17" wide
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 41
8.5" high x 15" wide
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 43
17" high
SOLD




Egungun
Headdress 37
10" high x 23" wide
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 51
11" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 77
14" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 78
8" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 79
16" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 32
11.5" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 68
10.5" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 66
5.5" high x 14" wide
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 65
8.5" high x 9.5" wide
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 80
21.5" long
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 49
10.5" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 81
6.5" high x 10" long
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 48
13" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 67
13.5" high
SOLD



Egungun
Headdress 64
11.5" high x 13" wide
SOLD



Egungun
Headdress 65
8.5" high x 9.5" wide
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 69
10" high
SOLD


Egungun
Headdress 78
8" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 79
16" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 80
21.5" long
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 81
6.5" high x 10" long
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 70
15.5" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 71
10" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 73
16" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 74
8,5" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 75
25" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 77
14" high
SOLD



 Egungun
Headdress 35
7.5" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 74
8.5" high
SOLD

Egungun
Headdress 75
25" high
SOLD



Photographs © Hamill Gallery

YORUBA EGUNGUN HEADDRESSES ARCHIVES

The Egungun headdresses on this page have been vetted as old and authentic.

The word Egungun refers to masking associated with honored male lineage ancestors. While each mask has a personal name, it does not usually refer to a specific ancestor. Rather, Egungun masks embody the "collective force of the ancestors. All of the Egungun in a community appear annually during a joyful festival that celebrates the distinguished dead. During the festival, the ancestors bless the living, promote physical and spiritual health, settle disputes, enforce tradition and morality, and cleanse the community of witchcraft.

--from African Shapes of the Sacred: Yoruba Religious Art by Carol Ann Lorenz, Senior Curator, Longyear Museum of Anthropology, Colgate University.


GO TO YORUBA EGUNGUN HEADDRESSES 1 PAGE (31-51)

GO TO YORUBA EGUNGUN HEADDRESSES 2 PAGE (61-78)

GO TO YORUBA EGUNGUN COSTUMES 1 PAGE

GO TO YORUBA EGUNGUN COSTUMES 2 PAGE

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