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The Congolese Mask...
Congo
Facial mask
Congo Brazzaville, upper reaches of the Likuala River
Mahongwe or Ngare people
Semi-hard polychrome wood (black, white and red)
Height: 35.5 cm
Former collections of Aristide Courtois (before 1930)
Charles Ratton and MoMA, New York (1939)
Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva
The poem in translation:
They wanted to deepen the shadow
where you will set your eyes
so that the flashes of sun
and flames will penetrate further
with their arrows to tattoo
not only your face
and the skin of your whole body,
but the secrets of your night
Les Masques
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The Indonesian Mask...
Indonesia Facial mask, Wayang Topeng theatre Island of Java, Indonesia Polychrome wood (white, black, several shades of red) Height: 21cm Former collection of Professor Czeschka, Hamburg; acquired before 1918 The poem in translation: Bewitcher, I observe ...
