Field archive / 64 documented headdresses
Gelede turns the market into ancestral commentary.
In the documented archive, public exchange appears more often than isolated portraiture.
Motif composition
Market scenes
18
28%
Human figures
15
24%
Animal companions
13
20%
Satire objects
10
16%
Cloth crowns
8
12%
Public life stays closest to the carved surface.
single-block iroko
mineral pigments
all-day masquerade