Specifications

• Height: 26 cm.
• Material: wood
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Provenance

Publications

Manfredi, Davide (2007, Masks, p. 56, sale catalogue

Exhibitions

Additional information

Masks from Timor were used in funerary rituals. The use is not clear and were not recorded in the colonial area. The physionomy is rather coarse and seems to anticipate an averting function.

The holes served to insert tufts of human or animal hair.

Photo credits

Pietro Notarianni