头饰：Janus - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	头饰：Janus
品名（英）	Headdress: Janus
入馆年号	1976年，1976.329
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1800 - 公元 1897
创作地区	尼日利亚（Nigeria）
分类	木雕（Wood-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 24 × 宽 13 1/2 × 深 15 1/2 英寸 (61 × 34.3 × 39.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这种戏剧性的头饰比大多数熟悉的约鲁巴雕塑更严肃、几何和线性。凭借对一块木头的非凡掌握，这位雕塑家创作了一件完全由纯几何形状构建的富有表现力的作品。脸是圆盘，鼻子是三角形，盖子是半球，嘴唇是两条，但整体是一张非常美丽的人脸。俏皮而神秘地覆盖在那张脸上的是有角动物的长鼻子脸，它在双关中重复使用了大脸的元素。像这个例子这样的Ijebu水灵面具用于表演，这些表演是被称为Agbo的节日的一部分。这个面具的两个角状突起是辫子，让人想起伊杰布祭司、王后和长老所戴的辫子。它显然是由一名表演者佩戴的，他的身体被附在木帽顶部的服装所掩盖，将其完全隐藏起来。多样化的面具是指被认为栖息在沿海泻湖中的精神实体。伊杰布的港口历来是商业繁荣和文化交流的源泉。这种Ijebu艺术形式的灵感来自邻近的Ijo人的化装舞会，这是一种强大的文化影响。虽然已知几种类似的头饰，但它们的使用仍然模糊不清。
介绍（英）	This dramatic headdress is more severe, geometric, and linear than most familiar Yoruba sculptures. With extraordinary mastery of a single block of wood, the sculptor has created an expressive work built entirely out of pure geometric shapes. The face is a disk, the nose a triangle, the cap a hemisphere, and the lips two bars, but the whole is a human face of great beauty. Overlying that face playfully and mysteriously is the long-nosed face of a horned animal that reuses elements of the larger face in a double entendre. Ijebu water-spirit masks such as this example are used in performances that are part of a festival known as Agbo. This mask's two hornlike projections are braids that recall coiffures worn by Ijebu priests, queens, and elders. It was apparently worn by a performer, whose body was concealed by a costume attached around the top of the wooden cap, hiding it completely. Diverse masks refer to the spirit entities that are perceived to inhabit coastal lagoons. Ijebu's ports have historically served as sources of commercial prosperity and cultural exchange. Inspiration for this Ijebu art form has come from the masquerades of neighboring Ijo peoples, a powerful cultural influence. Though several similar headdresses are known, their use remains obscure.