PREMIUM QUALITY ARTIFACT TEXTILE CLOTHING MAIDEN SPIRIT DANCE IGBO COSTUME ETNIX

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PREMIUM QUALITY ARTIFACT TEXTILE CLOTHING MAIDEN SPIRIT DANCE IGBO COSTUME ETNIX:
$1800.00

MUSEUM ARTIFACT POWERFUL CEREMONIAL HALF CLOTHING MAIDEN SPIRIT IGBO DANCED COSTUME APPLIQUED

Type of Object: HALF CLOTHING COAT

Ethnic Group: IGBO MMWO SHIRT/COAT

Country of Origin: NIGERIA

Materials: COTTON

Approximate Age: 50+ years

Dimensions: 57\" x 31\"

Weight: more than 5.0 lbs

Overall Condition: Used, FAIR, MASK COSTUME IS MISSING (distressed,worn out, with holes bc of usage)

Additional Information: From Wikepedia

Igbo masks and masquerades
Main article: Mmanwu
There are two basic types of masquerades, visible and invisible. The visible masquerades are meant for the public. They often are more entertaining. Masks used offer a visually appeal for their shapes and forms. In these visual masquerades, performances of harassment, music, dance, and parodies are acted out (Oyeneke 25).The invisible masquerades take place at night. Sound is the main tool for them. The masquerader uses his voice to scream so it may be heard throughout the village. The masks used are usually fierce looking and their interpretation is only fully understood by the society’s members. These invisible masquerades call upon a silent village to strike fear in the hearts of those not initiated into their society.
Kola nut (Ọjị)Kola nut (Igbo: Ọjị)[20] occupies a unique position in the cultural life of Igbo people. Ọjị is the first thing served to any visitor in an Igbo home. Ọjị is served before an important function begins, be it marriage ceremony, settlement of family disputes or entering into any type of agreement.[21] Ọjị is traditionally broken into pieces by hand, and if the Kola nut breaks into 3 pieces a special celebration is arranged.

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The roots of Ethnix

As ETHNIX has become an established physical entity on Broadway in the heart of Manhattan, its origin had its inspiration from the Secret Museum of Mankind, which was an anonymous collection of ethnographic and risque images of earths inhabitants throughout the four corners of the earth published by Manhattan house in the 1930′s. This fascination in my youth cast the die for my future worldwide travels and ethnix was to become the funding source for research and the collection of artifacts. As one reviewer described the book… The Secret Museum of Mankind reveals a lost world-and -the fading faces of the indigenous humanity that once covered the globe. Adventurer transport the reader to another era. The native cultures of America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the islands of the seas were so fascinating as they existed upon the book’s first publication nearly a century ago. Here revealed, by a thousand black-and-white photographs with captions that reflect the unabashed curiosity and marked sensationalism of the early-twentieth-century are the astonishing variety of rituals, religions, customs, physical decorations, and dress of the world’s native cultures. the elaborate costuming, the intricate and painstaking bodily manipulations, the fascinating practices of he cultures whose native expressions and lifestyles have unfortunately suffered the destructive advancing hands of the twentieth century.