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Dance mask, Ai or Asa Katé, C-14 dating: 1630–1810 (95.4% probability)
Wood, traces of red, white, and black pigment
51 x 30 x 30 cm (20 1/16 x 11 13/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.102

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Collected in Bogadjim village by Samuel Fenichel in 1892-93. Néprajzi Múseum, Budapest (8290)." (Catalog #366, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 143.) PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "This mask is defined by its powerful, expressionist image. Its bold and archaic style place it, and the telum figure (pl. 363), among my favorites in the collection. Note the pierced and elongated earlobes with the rendering of turtle shell ornaments, the circular motif immediately above the nose representing a boar's tusk, and the ribbed pattern on the forehead and the sides of the head probably referring to a band of Nassa shells. A drawing of a dancer with a similar mask by Nikolai N. Miklouho-Maclay is reproduced in Bodrogi, 1953, fig. 42." (Catalog #366, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 143.) 1997 - Kaeppler, Kaufmann, and Newton, 1997, figs. 633 and 634. 1981 - Kirk, 1981, pl. 124 and 125. 1979 - Bodrogi in Mead, 1979, figs. 14-12. 1977 - Crawford, 1977: 40. 1971 - Schmitz, 1971, pl. 122. 1963 - Guiart, 1963, no. 254. 1961 - Bodrogi, 1961, fig. 31.

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