Collection record · Edo peoples
Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià
A pendant mask identified by The Met with Edo peoples and Ìyọ́bà Idià. Its catalogue title and material line are presented without adding invented ritual claims.
- Maker
- Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood-carving guild) artists
- Culture
- Edo peoples
- Place / collection
- Nigeria · Arts of Africa, The Met
- Date
- 16th century
- Materials
- Ivory, iron, brass, coal and traces of iron oxides
- Object ID
- 1978.412.323 · API 318622
Editorial note
What the record supports
A named subject, a cultural attribution and an object type are distinct catalogue fields; each should remain traceable to the source record.
We reproduce the published culture and place fields from the museum. We do not use resemblance to identify an unrecorded object, and we do not add ceremonial meaning without an object-specific source.
Image & source
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Image: Public Domain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access. Catalogue data: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Current collection page ↗
Institutional byline: Mask & Craft Archive Editorial Desk
Published: 25 August 2026
Last checked: 30 August 2026