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Loan Object
Mask
19th century
Wood and pigment; carved and painted
31 × 23 × 23 cm (12 3/16 × 9 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
base: 37 × 15 × 16 cm (14 9/16 × 5 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
base: 37 × 15 × 16 cm (14 9/16 × 5 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, B.A. 1971
ILE2012.30.294
Geography:
Made in Borneo, Indonesia
Culture:
Kayan
Period:
19th century
Classification:
Masks
Provenance:
Ex-collection: R. Bennet, Sydney
Bibliography:
Roby Bennett and Peter Emmett, Arts of the Indonesian Archipelago: An Exhibition of Indonesian Primitive Art and Artifacts, Crafts Councils Centre Gallery, exh. cat. (Sydney: Crafts Council of New South Wales, 1984), fig. 5.
Michael Heppell, Communing with the Dark Side: Borneo’s Masks and Masquerades, 2 (Phillips, Maine: Borneo Research Council, 2015), 129, no. 144, fig. 144.
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