Lot No. 60


A very important Malangan mask.


A very important Malangan mask. - Tribal Art

Wood, pigment, shell (turbo petholatus opercula), 120 cm high. The Malangan festival is a cycle of rituals by the people of the north coast of New Ireland, an island close to Papua New Guinea. Malangan express many complex religious, legal, and philosophical ideas concerned with honoring and dismissing the dead and affirmation of the clans. Like a legal document, the figures are part of the negotiation and claims of the transmission of rights to land. The Malangan objects were created to be used a single time and then destroyed. (VJ)

Provenance:
Anthony Meyer, Paris;
An important private collection, Amsterdam.

Specialist: Joris Visser Joris Visser
+32-2-514 00 34

Joris.Visser@dorotheum.com

28.06.2023 - 15:30

Realized price: **
EUR 15,600.-
Estimate:
EUR 16,000.- to EUR 18,000.-
Starting bid:
EUR 12,000.-

A very important Malangan mask.


Wood, pigment, shell (turbo petholatus opercula), 120 cm high. The Malangan festival is a cycle of rituals by the people of the north coast of New Ireland, an island close to Papua New Guinea. Malangan express many complex religious, legal, and philosophical ideas concerned with honoring and dismissing the dead and affirmation of the clans. Like a legal document, the figures are part of the negotiation and claims of the transmission of rights to land. The Malangan objects were created to be used a single time and then destroyed. (VJ)

Provenance:
Anthony Meyer, Paris;
An important private collection, Amsterdam.

Specialist: Joris Visser Joris Visser
+32-2-514 00 34

Joris.Visser@dorotheum.com


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Auction: Tribal Art
Auction type: Online auction
Date: 28.06.2023 - 15:30
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 24.06. - 28.06.2023


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