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Catalogusnummer: 5627
Borneo, East Kalimantan, Bahau Dayak, a hudoq mask, late 19th century - early 20th century;
With an arched short nose, broad painted patterns, the movable jaw attached by the original plant fiber threads and with a pair of wooden ear ornaments. With black, yellow, white and red pigments.
H. 34 cm.
Provenance: ex collection KNIL Colonel, Dhr. Ensink, who was stationed in the Dutch East Indies between 1905 and 1921. He was gifted this mask during his tenure. Part of the collection of objects that were collected in those years were partly sold and gifted to the Museum Volkenkunde Leiden in 1955. For a reference mask see Yale Museum, ILE2012.30.192, once from the collection of Andre Breton, for a mask with a comparable nose and painted patterns.
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