KRAHO FIBRE MASK - image-1

Lot 250 Rα

KRAHO FIBRE MASK

Auktion 1103 - Übersicht Brussels
31.01.2018, 14:00 - Art of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas
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KRAHO FIBRE MASK
Brazil

This is a small version of the large masks used by the Kokrit society of the Kraho, Timbira and related groups. They represent water spirits and are danced during initiation rituals. For a discussion of such masks amongst the Timbira Indians see Francisco
65 cm. high

Provenienz

Harald Schultz, anthropologist
Alicia and Gugliemo Rossi, acquired from the above in the 1960s.