Lot Essay
Cf. Helfrich, K., Malanggan-1, Bildwerke von Neuirland, Berlin, 1973, pls.128 and 131, for similar masks in the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, collected in 1893/4 and 1900 respectively.
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Details
a fine new ireland mask
The central face with raised clusters to the coiffure, a further face to the top of the head with inset panel of red cloth above a broad mouth flanked by eyes on cylindrical stalks, a curved panel above with pierced vertical slits, wings to each side with pierced zigzag ornament, painted black, red and white, the eyes with inset shell opercula, the reverse inscribed: 30583 N. Mecklenburg Dr. A. Krämer
65.5cm. wide
The central face with raised clusters to the coiffure, a further face to the top of the head with inset panel of red cloth above a broad mouth flanked by eyes on cylindrical stalks, a curved panel above with pierced vertical slits, wings to each side with pierced zigzag ornament, painted black, red and white, the eyes with inset shell opercula, the reverse inscribed: 30583 N. Mecklenburg Dr. A. Krämer
65.5cm. wide
Provenance
Dr. A. Krämer, Linden Museum, Stuttgart. The Linden Museum catalogue lists this item as a carved board from a temple at Nusah. It was later exchanged with Markert.