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Lot Essay
Cf. a similar mask in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Schmitz, C.A.: Oceanic Art, New York, n.d., Pl.38)
Details
A RARE DUKE OF YORK ISLAND MASK
With serrated whitened beard about the face, knotted raffia coiffure, pierced oval eyes, reddish pigment to the face with white and blue painted embellishments, fragmentary old label printed and inscribed: Herz-Jesu-Missionshau..Hiltrup b.Munster i...Deutchland 90 Gesichtsmaske der Katakatai a lor Maschera a faccia umana
35cm. high
With serrated whitened beard about the face, knotted raffia coiffure, pierced oval eyes, reddish pigment to the face with white and blue painted embellishments, fragmentary old label printed and inscribed: Herz-Jesu-Missionshau..Hiltrup b.Munster i...Deutchland 90 Gesichtsmaske der Katakatai a lor Maschera a faccia umana
35cm. high
Provenance
Herz-Jesu Mission, Hiltrup, Germany
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