Mask · Indonesia - Timor · ID: 3033372
sold
EUR 1,800
Size
H: 22 cm
H: 8.7 inch
Description
wood, thick encrusty patina of soot and smoke, concave vaulted facial plane, eyes and mouth cut out, hammer nose, piece of fur above the forehead, slightly dam.;
the function of the Timor masks is not known, although some source says that they were worn by priests during dances of the warriors.
Comparing literature
Barbier, Jean Paul, Indonesian primitive art from the collection of the Barbier-Müller Museum, Geneva, Dallas 1984, p. 132, pl. 42