Dayak funerary mask
600€
Funerary mask, a sarcophagus edge. From Bahau, Dayak, East Kalimantan, Borneo.
The anthropomorphic face, the ancestor’s spirit, represents a triangular face with strongly sculpted brow bones, large spherical eyes, a long flat nose, and a dimaond-shaped checkered mouth designed to chase away evil spirits.
Second half of the 20th century.
Height 33 cm, width 20 cm – 13″ x 7.9″
On a base.
Vendu par rosichumillias
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