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Santa Fe Virtual, Objects of Art & Antique American Indian Art Show

June 3rd, 2021

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War Shields of Papua New Guinea

New AcQuisitions

New AcQuisitions | Papua New Guinea

Yipwon

photo Songye Figure

Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo

Songye Figure

photo Transformation mask

North America | Canada

Transformation mask

photo Raven Rattle

North America | Canada

Raven Rattle

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

photo Dance ornament

New AcQuisitions | New Ireland

Dance ornament

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

photo Tatanua mask

New AcQuisitions | New Ireland

Tatanua mask

photo U’U war club

New AcQuisitions | Marquesas Islands

U’U war club

photo Malagan Figure

New AcQuisitions | New Ireland

Malagan Figure

photo Punu Mask

Africa | Gabon

Punu Mask

photo Okvik head

North America | Alaska

Okvik head

New AcQuisitions | Papua New Guinea

Gope

photo Togu’na Dogon

Africa | Mali

Togu’na
Dogon

photo Ancestor Figure

New AcQuisitions | Papua New Guinea

Ancestor Figure

photo Hemba Figure

Africa | Democratic Republic of the Congo

Hemba Figure

photo Kota Obamba Figure

Africa | Gabon

Kota Obamba Figure

photo Baule mask

Africa | Ivory Coast

Baule mask

New AcQuisitions | New Zealand

Hei Tiki

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This Tlingit Raven rattle was sold at @labiennalep

This Tlingit Raven rattle was sold at @labiennaleparis!

It was formerly in the collection of painter Roberto Matta (1911-2002). In exile in New York during World War II, Matta and the Surrealist circle became fascinated with ancient arts of North America. Shamanic masks and sculptures ignited the imagination of these artists, poets and intellectuals gathered around the tutelary figure of André Breton. Matta acquired this superb raven rattle in the 1940s in New York.

In Northwest Coast myths, a Raven spirit originally taught shamans the secrets of their crafts. On this rattle, the human figure reclining on the back of the raven represents a shaman in trance, forming alliance with animal helping spirits.

Raven rattles such as the present example are sheer icons of ancient Northwest Coast art.
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Raven rattle
Tlingit
British Columbia, Northwest Coast, Canada
19th century

Ex collection Roberto Matta (1911-2002)
Acquired in New York in the 1940s
Ex collection Matta family
By descent in the Matta family collection

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@labiennaleparis is now open to the public! It is

@labiennaleparis is now open to the public!

It is a pleasure to be part of this fair. Come and discover our booth 27. All our team would be pleased to introduce our collection of ancient arts from North America, Africa and Oceania.

We hope to see you there!

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@labiennaleparis opens this week! Our booth will

@labiennaleparis opens this week!

Our booth will be full of surprises. We carefully selected masterworks of ancient North American art, such as this spectacular transformation mask from the Northwest Coast of Canada.

When presented wide open, this mask reveals a human face, but when the two side pieces are closed, it forms the head of bird of prey. A ceremonial dancer could pull on its strings at the appropriate moment to re-enact the story of a clan ancestor transforming from animal to human.

Indeed, Northwest Coast masks manifest shamanic transformation, usually an animal changing into an ancestor or one animal becoming another.

Bill Reid suggested beside that “what is shown in these decorative motifs and sculptures is not the different stages in the transformation of beings, but the propensity of all beings (human or animal) to incarnate their own metamorphoses” (see Form and Freedom: A Dialogue on Northwest Coast Indian Art, 1975).

Discover more by visiting us booth 27!
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Transformation mask
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)
British Columbia, Northwest Coast, Canada
19th century

Ex collection Heye Foundation, National Museum of the American Indian, inv. 20/7615
Acquired by the museum in 1945
Ex collection Everett Rassiga, New York,
Acquired by exchange with the Heye Foundation in February 1969
Ex collection Merton D. Simpson, New York
Ex collection Martin & Faith-Dorian Wright, New York

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This Tlingit Raven rattle was sold at @labiennalep

This Tlingit Raven rattle was sold at @labiennaleparis!

It was formerly in the collection of painter Roberto Matta (1911-2002). In exile in New York during World War II, Matta and the Surrealist circle became fascinated with ancient arts of North America. Shamanic masks and sculptures ignited the imagination of these artists, poets and intellectuals gathered around the tutelary figure of André Breton. Matta acquired this superb raven rattle in the 1940s in New York.

In Northwest Coast myths, a Raven spirit originally taught shamans the secrets of their crafts. On this rattle, the human figure reclining on the back of the raven represents a shaman in trance, forming alliance with animal helping spirits.

Raven rattles such as the present example are sheer icons of ancient Northwest Coast art.
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Raven rattle
Tlingit
British Columbia, Northwest Coast, Canada
19th century

Ex collection Roberto Matta (1911-2002)
Acquired in New York in the 1940s
Ex collection Matta family
By descent in the Matta family collection

#GalerieFlak #JulienFlak #LaBiennaleParis #LaBiennale #GrandPalais #GrandPalaisEphemere #ChampdeMars #SyndicatNationalDesAntiquaires #ArtFair #Tlingit #BritishColumbia #RobertoMatta #NorthAmericanArtExhibition #AncientNorthAmericanArt #NorthAmericanArtCollector #AncientNorthAmericanExpert #ArtCollector #ArtCollection #ArtAdvisor

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