The Yossef Maiman Collection - Important Pre-Columbian Pottery and Textile Hammeriste and In Cooperation with David Ben Ami Andres Auctions (Antiquities license number 299)
Lot 52299:
A funerary mask carved of wood and painted in cinnabar red, white and black. The mask was used as a false head on a funerary bundle representing the head of the deceased. A new identity was given to the deceased individual so that he would be recognized in the afterworld as a deity or a mythical ancestor of his tribe.
Height: 34.3 cm
For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 110, p. 134-135 ( https://issuu.com/hammersite/docs/offerings_for_the_afterlife?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ)
Provenance: Kemper Collection, Switzerland.
Donated to "The Museum of Islamic Art", Jerusalem, during 1970’s.
Purchased by Yossef Maiman 1991.
Estate of Yossef Maiman.
Literature: Makowski, Krzystof, Rosenzweif, Alfredo, Diaz Jimenes, Maria Jesus, Offerings for the Afterlife – Peruvian Textiles from the Maiman Collection, Kal Press LTD, Israel, 2006., p. 134-135
Condition: For a detailed condition report, please contact us at [email protected]
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