Headdress: Snakes and Heads (Idire)
Object type: Headdress
Department: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Culture: Okpoto peoples, Idoma group
Artist: Oba of Otobi
Artist role: Artist
Date: 1955
Medium: Wood, pigment
Dimensions: H. 18 11/16 x W. 7 1/2 x D. 13 in. (47.5 x 19.1 x 33 cm)
Classification: Wood-Sculpture
Geography:     Nigeria  
River: Benue River Valley region
Credit line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wielgus, 1962
Accession year: 1978
Tags: Heads|Snakes|Ceremonial Objects