Sepik Papua New Guinea Initiation Helm Mask

  
Reference: 4399-1rch artculture6 offers you this masks sepik initiation papua new Guinea. This helmet mask is used for the transition ceremony from child to adult between 10 and 12 years old. Normally this model is buried with its owner, which is why it is not found in this form. This one was brought back to the twentieth by an ethnologist now deceased for his collection.

Very large piece, about 98 cm, basketry only about 50 cm, the width is about 30 cm. This sepik mask mask is the only model present in Europe?

When sepik's works arrived in Europe, they fascinated the surrealists, andré Breton had several in his office. This sector was a cannibal sector, and sometimes it is said sometimes ...... the item "sepik mask-helm initiatic Papua New Guinea" is on sale since Friday, November 11, 2016. It is in the category " art, antiques \ objects of the nineteenth and before ". The seller is "artculture6" and is located in / in Marseille.

This item can be delivered anywhere in the world.

1. unit quantity: 1
2. type: folk art object
3. unit of measure: m
4. origin: oceania
5. subtype: mask