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Ceremonial carving, Yina
, C-14 dating: 1650–1880 (94.5% probability)
Wood, pigment
88.9 x 35.6 x 27.9 cm (35 x 14 x 11 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.336
Artist Biography: (none)
PROVENANCE: "Collected by Douglas Newton in Tongwindjamb village in 1964. Douglas Newton Collection, New York." (Catalog #329, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 136.)
EXHIBITIONS: 1979 - National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, "The Art of the Pacific Islands."
PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "Yina carvings were used in yinama, the first of a three-phase ceremonial cycle among the Kwoma and Nukuma, dedicated to the sacred yam cult. There are both male and female yina (spirit brothers and sisters). They are placed in a circle in a large basket, filled with yams and ornaments, inside the ceremonial house. Usually the most important male yina is prominently displayed. This arrangement is illustrated in Kaufmann, 1968: 94, fig. 39. According to Ross Bowden (1983: 339), yina figures conveyed the essential visual representation of idealized masculinity, with their stylized heads and projecting, stikingly phallic noses. They celebrate men and emphasize their prowess as yam gardeners and, in human terms, as the begetters of children. Newton reports that, like their mindja figures, the yina of the Kwoma were much larger and had concave, not flat, faces. The spike descending behind the head represents the yina's human bone dagger (Newton, 1971: 85)." (Catalog #329, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 136.)
1979 - Newton et al., 1979: 332, no. 22.70.
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