Masque anthropomorphe ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Rivière Ramu · ID: 3044979

Description

wood, red pigment/ encrusted, base

According to attached old label the mask was collected on Manam Island, Waya Village from a “tambaran” ritual house.

Masks and slit-gong drums from the Lower Ramu are traded along the coast as far as the Murik Lakes and out to Manam Island and the Schouten Islands in the Bismarck Sea.

This is, so to speak, an “empty mask” that can not be assigned to a specific spirit, but animated ad hoc for the mask dances with the spirit that you want to perform.

Littérature comparée

Peltier, Philippe et.al., Tanz der Ahnen, Zürich 2015, p. 252, Kat.121