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FANTASTIC FOLK ART OCUMICHO MEXICO CLAY MASK: Folk art painted pottery mask, Ocumicho, Mexico, 20th c., base mask with doubled human features, applied fantastic creatures, including serpents, lizards, a turtle, boar, etc., some loss, approx 12.25

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LUBA-SONGYE, KIFWEBE MASK, CONGO: Early 20th c. Carved wood Without stand: 16 1/4" x 9 3/4" Provenance: Armand Arman, New York John Giltsoff, London Allan Stone Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1981) Exhibition: Power

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IATMUL, MASK, PAPUA NEW GUINEA: 20th c. Carved wood, shells 31" x 8" x 4" Provenance: Allan Stone Collection, New York There are mask-making villages all along the Sepik, but the Middle River is the most densely populated with over

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HIMALAYAN MASK, NEPAL OR TIBET: Late 19th/Early 20th c. Carved wood 6 1/4" x 11" x 6 7/8" Provenance: Allan Stone Collection, New York In the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet the tradition of wearing masks descends from animistic

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WURKUN, ANTHROPOMORPHIC SHOULDER MASK, NIGERIA: (MIDDLE BENUE) 20th c. Jointed, carved wood, paint, metal 57 1/4" x 16" x 16" Provenance: Allan Stone Collection, New York The largest and most ethnically and geographically complex within Nigeria’s

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IBIBIO, MASK, NIGERIA: 20th c. Carved and etched wood, paint 13" x 10" x 8" Provenance: Private Collection, Europe Sotheby's New York, 5 May 1997, Lot 57 Allan Stone Collection, New York Neighbors to the Igbo, the Ibibio li

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BWA, HOMBO MASK, BURKINA FASO: 20th c. Carved wood, paint, seeds 52" x 14" x 11" Provenance: Allan Stone Collection, New York Note: Masks with flat vertical superstructures are spoken of as hombo spirits, associated with blacksmith

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HIMALAYAN MASKS, NEPAL OR TIBET: Two: Late 19th/Early 20th c. Carved wood, hair 10" x 6" x 3", 13" x 8" x 5" Provenance Allan Stone Collection, New York In the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet the tradition of wearing masks descen

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WAYANA-APARAI, MASK, BRAZIL: 20th c. Wax, modeled clay, palm fronds Without stand: 67" x 11" x 7" Provenance: Collection of Rosita Roden, Cary, North Carolina Allan Stone Collection, New York (acquired from the above in May 1997)

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CHOKWE, PWO MASK, CENTRAL AFRICA: 20th c. Carved wood Without stand: 9" x 7" Provenance: Allan Stone Collection, New York The Chokwe are a Bantu-speaking people who inhabit the southern part of Congo, northeastern Angola, and, since t

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BWA, PLANK MASK, MALI: 20th c. Carved wood, paint, rope 90" x 15" x 14" Provenance: Allan Stone Collection, New York The imagery found in masks of the Bobo, Bwa, Kurumba, Mossi, and others living in Burkina Faso and southea

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