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Mask, 19th–early 20th century
Rattan, basketry, clay, pigment
63.5 x 35.6 x 45.7 cm (25 x 14 x 18 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.382

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "These masks incorporate the long-nosed motif, most typical of the Lower Sepik region. It is not possible now to determine if an actual connection exists. Newton, 1961, figs. 88-89, illustrates two kauvai masks collected by A.B. Lewis of the Field Museum, Chicago, 1912, at Aropai village, probably on the Bina offshoot of the Bamu River or, respectively, Naviu and Uapumba Island, in the mouth of the Bamu River. Another example, very beautiful but lacking its clay surface, is in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, Cologne, and is published in Stöhr, 1972, fig. 270. The provenance given is 'Fly Estuary.'" (Catalog #482, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 166.) 1995 - Meyer, 1995, fig. 96.

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