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Tatanua masks are veritable icons of Oceanic art. These powerfully expressive masks are distinguished by a rich painted decoration and an imposing crest in fibers. Tatanua masks are important to ritual life, marking the closing of the Malagan, a ceremonial cycle at the heart of the ancestral practices of New Ireland in the South Pacific.
Provenance
Ex collection Robert Rousset (1901-1981), Paris
Acquired between 1920 and 1930
By descent
Publication(s)
Ferocious Poetry, L’Enfance de l’Art, 2019
Exhibition(s)
Poésie Féroce, Parcours des Mondes 2019, Paris