Specifications

• Height: 39 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name:
• Price realised: € 12.270,-

Provenance

Mark Johnson, Marina del Rey; Native, Brussels 12-11-2024, lot 9

Publications

Johnson, Mark (2020), The Kayanic Tradition, Volume 1: Guardian Sculptures, p.246; Doustar, Martin (2022), Austronesia, p. 104-5.

Exhibitions

Additional information

In the Johnson book two masks are published, next to each other, allegedly forming a pair. These type of masks are rare and the function to be discussed. A hole on the back makes an attachment to a wall plausable. They could represent ancestral spirits to ward off evil.

Photo credits

Native, Brussels