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Gable mask from ceremonial house façade, 20th century
Sago palm petiole, wood, bamboo, pigment, sago leaf fiber
63 in.
Museum purchase, Mrs. Paul L. Wattis Fund 2000.172.7

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art EXHIBITIONS: 1985-88 - Tribal Art Centre, Basel, 1985-88, "Authority and Ornament." PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "This mask was photographed in situ in 1959 by A. Bühler of the Museum der Kulturen, Basel. (Greub, 1985, fig. p. 184). It may represent the cannibalistic primoridan giant who has become a guardian spirit, but it seems more likely to be the face of the primordial woman, "the origin of all life," whose body is represented by the men's ceremonial house (Kocher Schmid in Greub, 1985: 183-84, fig. 33). See pl. 227 regarding the primordial giant." (Catalog #241, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 121.) 1985 - Greub, 1985, cover and cat. 33.

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