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Headrest, 19th century
Wood, pigment
14 x 15 x 7 cm (5 1/2 x 5 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.61

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Collected by Casimir Hagen. Linden-Museum, Stuttgart; Jay C. Leff Collection, Uniontown, Penn." (Catalog #379, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 147.) EXHIBITIONS: 1975 - American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1975, "Faces and Figures: Pacific Art from the Collection of Jay C. Leff." 1959-60 - Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1959-60, "Exotic Art from Ancient and Primitive Civilizations." PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "A lying but arched human figure as headrest support is a rare variation within the group of Tami headrests dominated by a single human figure. Another horizontal headrest is in the Néprajzi Múseum, Budapest (63911), published in Bodrogi, 1961a, fig. 71. The present example deviates in that a circular element-probably a rendering of a boar tusk (yabo)-is inserted between the feet of the figure and the upper slab." (Catalog #379, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 147.) 1975 - Sotheby Parke Bernet, Oct. 10, 1975, lot 21; American Museum of Natural History, 1975, fig. 40. 1959 - Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1959, no. 119.

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