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Dance mask, 20th century
Wood, pigment, cassowary feathers
18 7/8 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.93

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "Masks in the korwar style are very rare. Other than this one and the next object, I know of only a few. One is in the Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, and is published in Menter, 2003, pl. 84. It was collected on Ron Island (approximately 75 km southeast from Ransiki village, where this mask comes from) by Paul Kibler in 1930 (ibid., 201b). Another is in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (van Duuren in Greub, 1992: 208, 211). There may be another one in Amsterdam. Their curator stated (Greub, 1992: 211) that two such masks, one of which was used to frighten headhunters, entered the museum in 1931. A fourth one, different-in that it concerns a cylindrical mask-but still related, is in the Néprajzi Múseum, Budapest (Bodrogi, 1959, pl. 6; 1981, pl. 29; Hala and Vargyas, 1992: 93, fig. 101). It was collected in 1937 by the Hungarian geologist Horst von Bandat at Modan, an island in Bintuni Bay. A fifth one, but different again (rather flat and angular, almost square) is at the Museo di Antropologia, Firenze (Salvi, 1992: 65, pl. 12)." (Catalog #536, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 178.)

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