Mask 40456
Atoni People, West Timor
Wood, pigment traces
Early 20th Century
21 cm / 8.25 in
Ex Ogawa Collection
This mask captures the ‘joker’ archetype, a universal iconography. Masks on Timor were documented to be used in funerary rites and it is a reasonable inference that this mask expresses a ‘laughing at death’ iconography.
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