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Cimier de danse "De’aruwa" du festival "Warime", Vénézuéla, Piaroa, Taille: H: 140 cm (with raffia fringe), ID: 3048515
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Lot 56
97e Vente aux enchères

Cimier de danse "De’aruwa" du festival "Warime" ·  Vénézuéla, Piaroa · ID: 3048515

Vendu 400 €
Provenance
Nelly van den Abbeele, Brussels, Belgium
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.

Exposition

Rennes, Maison de Culture, "Les Masques et leurs Fonction", 47-48, 1980

Amérique

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