Specifications

• Length: 15,5 cm.
• Material: wood, boar’s tusk, shell, plant fibre
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Provenance

Wilhelm Müller-Wismar (1881-1916), before 1913; Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne

Publications

Stöhr, W. a.o. (1981), Art des Indonésiens archaïques, p. 142, fig. 92.

Exhibitions

Rath Museum, Geneva 1981/ Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1982 ( Art of the Archaic Indonesians)

Additional information

These small masks held between the teeth served during the Porka rituals, that celebrated fertility. They are rare and lesser than 10 exeamples exist worldwide in public collections.

Photo credits

H.D. Weber, Cologne