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THBVintage Bella Coola Wood Portrait Mask w/ Hair
Lot 65
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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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Featuring ancient and ethnographic art from around the world, including Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Ethnographic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, Fine Art, much more. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Pacific Northwest Coast, Bella Coola, ca. 1960s. Finely carved from alder wood, magnificently hand-painted, and adorned with plugs of human hair, a superb Bella Coola portrait mask presenting an expressive visage with wide open eyes, a prominent nose with flared nostrils, a slightly open mouth with downturned corners, and magnificent face paint in royal blue, cherry red, tan, black, and white hues. Masks like this example were traditionally used to represent ancestral spirits, animals, as well as creatures of the four regions of the cosmos - the Mortal World, the Sky World, the Undersea World, and the Spirit World - in theatrical rituals/dances. Size: 11" L x 7.25" W (27.9 cm x 18.4 cm); 22.5" H (57.2 cm) on included custom stand.
Traditionally, such masks were hidden away and guarded, and only shown during ceremonial dances. According to Bruce Grenville, curator of the Vancouver (British Columbia) Art Museum, in his introduction to Down from the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast, "Masks are a manifestation of powerful ancestral spirits and are used to make the supernatural world visible."
Provenance: private Newport Beach, California, USA collection
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#141583A few stable age cracks along upper and lower peripheries (forehead and chin). Possible losses to ends of hair, but all plugs are present. Otherwise intact and paint is vivid.Condition
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