Zemanek-Münster
Mask "Garuda", Bhutan, Size: H: 26 cm (H: 10.2 inch), ID: 3048777
Mask "Garuda", Bhutan, Size: H: 26 cm (H: 10.2 inch), ID: 3048777 - 2/6 Mask "Garuda", Bhutan, Size: H: 26 cm (H: 10.2 inch), ID: 3048777 - 3/6 Mask "Garuda", Bhutan, Size: H: 26 cm (H: 10.2 inch), ID: 3048777 - 4/6 Mask "Garuda", Bhutan, Size: H: 26 cm (H: 10.2 inch), ID: 3048777 - 5/6 Mask "Garuda", Bhutan, Size: H: 26 cm (H: 10.2 inch), ID: 3048777 - 6/6
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Lot 29
98th Auction

Mask "Garuda" ·  Bhutan · ID: 3048777

sold EUR 1,500
Provenance
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 19 June 2010, Lot 144
Werner Zintl, Worms, Germany
Size
H: 26 cm
H: 10.2 inch

Description

wood, three-piece, polychrome colours

The ancient “Bon” animist bird spirit “Khyung”. Subsumed by later Buddhist imagery its shamanic connections are retained by its use of mountain goat horns.

Comparing literature

Chazot, Eric, Masks of the Himalayas, New York 1990, p. 12

Asia
Masks

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