Lot Essay
Cf. Lincoln, L., Assemblage of Spirits, New York, 1987, p.134, fig.33, for a similar head in the Ubersee Museum, Bremen, said to be from a horizontal board
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Details
a new ireland head
The face painted red with black bands to forehead and cheeks, whitened brows and eyes with the latter outlined in blue, the mouth painted half black and half white, long pierced lobes to the ears, wearing conical headdress with painted geometric ornament in white and red, the head covered in gum with inset tufts of fibre hair, the neck on tapered base, painted accession number on the neck 14.331
51cm. high
The face painted red with black bands to forehead and cheeks, whitened brows and eyes with the latter outlined in blue, the mouth painted half black and half white, long pierced lobes to the ears, wearing conical headdress with painted geometric ornament in white and red, the head covered in gum with inset tufts of fibre hair, the neck on tapered base, painted accession number on the neck 14.331
51cm. high
Provenance
Néprajzi Museum of Ethnography, Budapest