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Title:Art in history, history in art: the Idoma ancestral masquerade as historical evidence
Author:Kasfir, Sidney LittlefieldISNI
Year:1985
Pages:27
Language:English
Series:Working papers
City of publisher:Boston, MA
Publisher:African Studies Center, Boston University
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:Idoma
masquerades
Abstract:In this paper, the author considers the origins and propagation of the ancestral masquerade cult in central Nigeria, and in particular its history among the Idoma-speaking peoples. He refers to a very specific form of ancestral masquerade in which the reincarnated ancestor appears in a long burial shroud, commonly with a projection underneath which elongates its height. It is known variously as 'tall ghost', 'hooded cobra', and 'the mask that leans'.