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Yoruba Gelede Mask with Colonial Era Figure, Nigeria #953Yoruba Gelede Mask with Colonial Era Figure, Nigeria #953 Wonderful Gelede Mask with traces of original matte polychrome. Depicts a clothed and helmeted Colonial Figure sitting in a folding chair; it is unclear whether the individual in the chair represents a European or a Yoruba Chieftain in European dress. The supporting head of the mask appears to be a Female Character, as she sports a headwrap that terminates in a bow at the back of her head.
- Yoruba Gelede Mask with Colonial Era Figure, Nigeria #953
- Wonderful Gelede Mask with traces of original matte polychrome. Depicts a clothed and helmeted Colonial Figure sitting in a folding chair; it is unclear whether the individual in the chair represents a European or a Yoruba Chieftain in European dress. The supporting head of the mask appears to be a Female Character, as she sports a headwrap that terminates in a bow at the back of her head.
- Materials: Wood, pigment
- Measurements: 16″ height. Includes a Custom Made Base.
- Provenance: From the Estate of Kenneth Lewis, Brooklyn, NY
- This type of Mask might have been worn at Funeral Ceremonies and expresses humor and irony with a subliminal laugh that is alien to Western Christian Funerals.
- Gelede Headdresses (not Masks as these sit ON the head and not across the face) are one of the few among the Yoruba People to celebrate Female Forces.
- The Gelede is performed by the Yoruba-Nago Community spread over Benin, Nigeria and Togo. For more than a Century, this Ceremony has been performed to pay tribute to the Primordial Mother Iyà Nlà, and to the role Women play in the process of Social Organization and Development of Yoruba society.
- Gelede is also a Festival of Masks performed in veneration of the Society's Powerful Older Women, the Iyami.
- Egbado Yoruba Communities perform Gelede annually, at which time they formally recognize the Powers of the Iyami, and solicit their Benevolence to ensure the Prosperity of the Community.
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★★★★★ 5
Cute shelf set!
Color: Brown, Color: Brown
Shelves look great in my room. Perfect amount of space to display my little travel trinkets. Super easy to install and seem to hold a good amount of weight as I have a Mason Jar full of sand/shells on one of them.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Sturdy and well built
Color: Natural Wood
Very sturdy and well built.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Great value and easy to install!
Color: Black, Color: Black
I only needed 3 of the 4 shelves so I have one as a backup! Very easy to install as well. The shelves feel sturdy and I’ve never had any issues!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2026
★★★★★ 4
quality matches cost + instructions unnecessarily tedious
Color: Brown, Color: Brown
The material is real wood but don't assume that means quality - it's still very cheap feeling, and very lightweight. But once installed they are quite stable, and they look great from afar. I got a darker colored one and the stain does come off very easily. One of the shelves had a huge manufacturer sticker on it and it took off the stain when I removed it, and a bit of the stain also came off when I wiped the shelves down with a wet cloth. It'll be dry dusting from now on, I suppose.
Also, they did not fit snugly into the corner - when one side is pushed flush to the wall, it forces the other side to pull away from the wall a little bit. It wasn't a drastic space, maybe like 1/8th of an inch, but it is still something to note. I am fine with the cheap quality as they are, after all, pretty cheap, so I'd say they are worth exactly as much as they cost. Personally I am happy with the purchase - just thought I'd warn.
Secondly - if you want to follow the instructions exactly, you will need two people unless you have inhuman agility. But I also think the instructions were a bit asinine and tedious. They want you to line up the LOOSE shelf and brackets with a leveler to mark where the brackets go on the wall, then put in the wall screws, hang the brackets on them, balance the shelf on the brackets to mark on the SHELF where the brackets will be attached, take the brackets off the wall to screw them into the shelf, then put the combined shelf-bracket unit once again on the wall screws and finally screw those in tight.
In hindsight, you can just mark where the brackets should go on the SHELF (not wall), screw the brackets into the shelves, THEN level the shelf on the wall and screw the whole unit into the wall together. We were really baffled why the instructions didn't have us do that instead of spending extra time (and frustration) trying to juggle all the loose pieces and tools. But I'm not engineer-minded, nor have I ever installed corner shelves before, so maybe there would be some kind of issue with doing it that way that I can't predict.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Good shelving decor
Color: Black
Easy to install and perfect for a corner display of Disney decor. They are lightweight, so we didn't put anything heavy on them, but the brackets seem sturdy enough that we could probably put something moderately weighty on them.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2025