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Gable mask from ceremonial house façade

20th century

Sawos

Culture: Sawos
Title: Gable mask from ceremonial house façade
Date: 20th century
Object Type: Architectural Element
Medium: Sago palm pangal, wood, bamboo, pigment, sago leaf fiber
Dimensions: 63 in.
Credit Line: Museum purchase, Mrs. Paul L. Wattis Fund
Accession Number: 2000.172.7

Torembi village, Papua New Guinea, by 1959. [1]
Marcia and John Friede, Rye, New York, by 2000; [2]
Acquired by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2000.
[1] Photographed in situ on the facade of a house in the Torembi village in 1959 by Alfred Bühler of the Museum für Völkerkunde Basel (Greub 1985, p. 184).
[2] Friede et. al. 2005, p. 121.
Basel, Switzerland, Tribal Art Centre. January 31, 1985–June 28, 1985; Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Museum zu Allerheiligen, January 11. 1986–March 16, 1986; Linz, Austria, Oberösterreichische Landesmuseum, April 10, 1986–June 29, 1986; Seattle, Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, August 1, 1986–Jan 1, 1987; New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, March 3, 1987–April 25, 1987; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, august 10, 1987–October 4, 1987; Denver Art Museum, November 21, 1987–January 24, 1988; Phoenix, The Heard Museum, February 20, 1988–May 1, 1988; San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences, June 15, 1988–November 27, 1988. "Authority and Ornament: Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea" no. 33.Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Legion of Honor), February 2, 2002-May 5, 2002, "Selected Masterworks: The Marcia and John Friede Collection of New Guinea Art."
Greub, Suzanne, ed., Authority and Ornament: Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, exh. cat. (Basel, Switzerland: Tribal Art Centre, Basel, 1985), pp. 183-184, no. 33.
Berrin, Kathleen, "Transforming Our Collections," Fine Arts (Fall/Winter 2001–2002), p. 17.
Friede, John et. al, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede vol. 2 (Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2005), p. 121, no. 241.

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