Mask | Yale University Art Gallery

19th century

Medium: Wood and pigment; carved and painted
Dimensions: 12 3/16 × 9 1/16 × 9 1/16 in. (31 × 23 × 23 cm)
base: 14 9/16 × 5 7/8 × 6 5/16 in. (37 × 15 × 16 cm)
Credit Line: Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, B.A. 1971
Loan number: ILE2012.30.294
Geography: Made in Borneo, Indonesia
Culture: Kayan
Period: 19th century
Classification: Masks
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Provenance

Ex-collection: R. Bennet, Sydney

Bibliography

Michael Heppell, Communing with the Dark Side: Borneo's Masks and Masquerades, 2 (Phillips, Maine: Borneo Research Council, 2015), 129, no. 144, fig. 144.

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.

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Additional information

Object/Work type

masks (costume)

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