Lot: 43

88e vente aux enchères Tribal Art

Masque d´un costume de danse

Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Moyen Sepik

Provenance Taille Prix d’appel / Prix d'Estimation
Ernst Schauerte, Berlin, Germany
E. Schauerte was employed as developement aid worker in Papua New Guinea from 1984 until 1989. He received the present mask as a gift in Kainantu in the Eastern Highlands.
B: 23 cm;
H: 17 cm
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light wood, brown patina, striking broad face with pointed ears (flying fox?) and triangular projections above the forehead, fixed to ring-shaped wickerwork, slightly dam., abrasion of paint.
According to old collection label on the backside originating from Kamanibit village in the Middle Sepik area.