Specifications

• Height: 22 cm.
• Material: wood, hide, iron
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• Indigenous name:
• Price realised:

Provenance

J.J. Porchez, Paris; Thomas Jaffe, New York and promised gift to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, ILE2012.30.425.

Publications

Stöhr, W. a.o. (1981), Art des Indonesiens archaïques, p. 136 fig. 84.

Exhibitions

Rath Museum, Geneva 1981/ Dallas Museum of Fine Arts 1982

Additional information

Function of these masks are unknown, since Westerners penetrated the inlands the use of these masks had become obsolete and or were hidden from Western eyes? Most of these masks that came onto the market in the 1970s, show great age.

Photo credits

Johan Vipper/ YUAG