Ornament for sacred flute

20th century

Title: Ornament for sacred flute
Date: 20th century
Object Type: Sculpture
Medium: Wood, pigment, string, fiber, plaitwork
Dimensions: 44 x 7 x 7 cm (17 5/16 x 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marcia and John Friede (purchased in part with funds from the Evelyn A.J. Hall Charitable Trust)
Accession Number: 2010.77.12

Serge Brignoni, Bern, Switzerland; [1]
[Charles Ratton, Paris]; [2]
Sold, private collection. [3]
Marcia and John Friede, Rye, New York, by 2005; [3]
Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2010. [4]
[1] Friede et. al. 2005, p. 120.
[2] Friede et. al. 2005, p. 120.
[3] According to John Friede, "the previous owner purchased the object from Charles Ratton around the time I bought the next object [2010.77.11] from him" (Friede et. al. 2005, p. 120). Friede does not name the previous owner but notes that they "primarily specialized in Dogon objects from Mali."
[4] Friede et. al. 2005, p. 120.
[5] Loaned to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2005, gifted for permanent acquisition in 2010.
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. 120, no. 236.Hellmich, Christina, "Carving the story: Recovering histories of Sepik art in the Jolika Collection‪," Journal de la Société des Océanistes 146 (2018), pp. 103-104, photo 5.

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