Rare "tapa" cloth mask · Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula · ID: 3053587
Starting price
EUR 2,000
Estimated price
EUR 3,000
Provenance
Damian Brandt, New York, USAGalerie Jahn, Munich, Germany
Lempertz, Brussels, 22 January 2013, lot 183
Size
M: 53 cm x 77 cm (without backing)
M: 20.9 inch x 30.3 inch (without backing)
Description
barkcloth, pigments, mounted on a textile backing
According to Stephan, masks of this type were attached to small memorial structures for the dead.
Comparing literature
Stephan, Emil, Südseekunst, Berlin 1907, ill. 86