Dance crest "De’aruwa" of the "Warime" festival" · Venezuela, Piaroa · ID: 3048515
Christie’s Amsterdam, 29 May 2001, Lot 340
Description
bark cloth, modelling material, pigments, grass fibres, feathers (macaw), with woven rattan rattle, base
The Piaroa people inhabit the Orinoco River Basin region of Venezuela and northern Brazil.
The “Warime” ceremony is the biggest festival of Piaroa society. It includes a purification ritual in which masqueraders represent animal spirits and proclaim their deeds of the year to the tribe, good and bad, to seek respectively praise or forgiveness.
The object Dance crest “De’aruwa” of the “Warime” festival" with the object ID 3048515 was last part of the auction 97th Auction at November 6, 2021 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 56 achieved a sales price of EUR 400.
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Exhibition
Rennes, Maison de Culture, "Les Masques et leurs Fonction", 47-48, 1980