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THBTall 20th C. Indonesian Asmat Fiber Mask Jipae Festival
Lot 135a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Indonesia, western Irian Jaya / West Papua, Asmat people, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. One of the nicest we have seen - a beautifully preserved example of a Jipae festival body mask. It features a woven basketry headdress and bodice with wide, hoop-like openings for the hands and lower body and dangling sago leaf sleeves and skirt. Wooden eyes carved and painted to resemble the claws of crustaceans give the face a fascinating, bespectacled appearance. A large shell nose ornament, carved into a double spiral, adorns the lower part of the face. White feathers hang from a wooden stalk that rises from the top of the head. Around the neck the figure also wears a traditional cassowary bone dagger decorated with cassowary feathers. Size with skirt included: 22" W x 38" H (55.9 cm x 96.5 cm); 81" H (205.7 cm) on included custom stand.
This item is also known as a doroe or dekewar. Masks in the Jipae festival represent the deceased. The Asmat dance the ceremony to urge these ancestors to return to the "safan", the world of the ancestors. Fascinatingly, each mask corresponds to a specific deceased member of the community, and the dancer wearing the mask agrees to take on the responsibilities of the deceased, including caring for their children. See a very similar example at the British Museum (Oc1975,01.1).
Provenance: private Tucson, Arizona, USA collection, acquired between 1950 and 1985
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#150835Light wear commensurate with age but overall in great condition. Some of the white pigment is flaking in places. Rich patina on all surfaces.Condition
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