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Santa Fe Virtual
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Objects of Art – Santa Fe

24 - 27 June

Bourgogne Tribal Show 2021

17 - 22 June

Paris Tribal 2021

June 3rd, 2021

Phantom
War Shields of Papua New Guinea

Faces, visible – invisible

New Publication!

War clubs from Oceania

Katsinam

New AcQuisitions

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

Archives | Australia

Shield

photo Baule Figure

Africa | Ivory Coast

Baule Figure

photo Tsimshian Bowl

North America | Canada

Tsimshian Bowl

photo Yup’ik Mask

North America | Alaska

Yup’ik Mask

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

photo War shield

New AcQuisitions | Papua New Guinea

War shield

photo Lobi figure

Africa | Burkina Faso

Lobi figure

photo Kachina doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina doll

New AcQuisitions | Australia

Churinga

photo Kachina Doll

North America | New Mexico, USA

Kachina Doll

photo Totokia club

New AcQuisitions | Fiji

Totokia club

New AcQuisitions | Papua New Guinea

Gope

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

North America | Canada

Spoon

photo Bambara Antelope

Africa | Mali

Bambara Antelope

photo Kachina Doll

North America | Arizona

Kachina Doll

photo Phantom Shield

New AcQuisitions | Papua New Guinea

Phantom Shield

photo Thule Whale

North America | Alaska

Thule Whale

photo Thule Seal

North America | Alaska

Thule Seal

photo Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)

North America

Edward S. Curtis
(1868-1952)

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☀️A summer throwback to the pieces you loved t

☀️A summer throwback to the pieces you loved the most during the year (2/3)

“They are the most beautiful things in the world...”
French poet Paul Éluard, describing kachina dolls in “Letters to Gala” (1927).

This poetic and early kachina doll is a Rain Messenger known as "Sio Shalako" (“Sio” means "from the Zuni" in Hopi language). The first account of a Sio Shalako ritual dance on the Hopi mesas dates back to the 1850s.

In the pioneering essay "Dolls of the Tusayan Indians", published in 1894, Jesse Walter Fewkes illustrated another early example of Sio Shalako katsina (page 19, plate VIII).
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From the archives:
Sio Shalako Katsina doll
Hopi, Arizona
Circa 1900
Height: 23.5 cm (9 1⁄4 in.)

Provenance:
Ex collection Steve Nelson, California
Ex private collection, California
Ex Bonhams San Francisco, December 2017
Ex private collection, New York
Ex Galerie Flak, Paris
Private collection, acquired from the above, 2021

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☀️ A summer throwback to the pieces you loved

☀️ A summer throwback to the pieces you loved the most during the year (1/3)

What a lovely smile!

As described in the reference book "Coaxing the Spirits to Dance" (Hood / Metropolitan Museum of Art), in the past, the primary focus of religious and artistic life in the Papuan Gulf region was on powerful spirits (imunu). Each imunu was associated with a specific location in the landscape, rivers, or sea. It dwelt in one signe clan to which it was linked.

The majority of Papuan Gulf wood sculpture was two-dimensional. It consisted of board-like carvings, known as spirit boards (gope or kopé), and figures with designs in low relief. Villages formerly had large communal men's houses divided into cubicles, each allotted to a particular clan or subclan. Every cubicle contained a clan shrine, which housed the Gope spirit boards, figures, human and animal skulls, and other sacred objects associated with the clan's various imunu.

This Gope spirit board was collected by Paul Wirz (1892-1955) in the 1930s. A famous field photograph shows this ritual sculpture in its original Men’s House along with other spirit boards, figures and skulls. This sculpture notably appears on the cover of the book Weltvagant im Urwald und auf der Savanne, published by Paul Wirz in 1953.
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Gope spirit board
Papuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea
Early 20th century
Height: 126 cm (46 1⁄2 in.)
Ex collection Paul Wirz, Basel
Published

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Last but not least, our study of feminine represen

☀️A summer throwback to the pieces you loved t

☀️A summer throwback to the pieces you loved the most during the year (2/3)

“They are the most beautiful things in the world...”
French poet Paul Éluard, describing kachina dolls in “Letters to Gala” (1927).

This poetic and early kachina doll is a Rain Messenger known as "Sio Shalako" (“Sio” means "from the Zuni" in Hopi language). The first account of a Sio Shalako ritual dance on the Hopi mesas dates back to the 1850s.

In the pioneering essay "Dolls of the Tusayan Indians", published in 1894, Jesse Walter Fewkes illustrated another early example of Sio Shalako katsina (page 19, plate VIII).
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From the archives:
Sio Shalako Katsina doll
Hopi, Arizona
Circa 1900
Height: 23.5 cm (9 1⁄4 in.)

Provenance:
Ex collection Steve Nelson, California
Ex private collection, California
Ex Bonhams San Francisco, December 2017
Ex private collection, New York
Ex Galerie Flak, Paris
Private collection, acquired from the above, 2021

#GalerieFlak #JulienFlak #Kachina #KachinaDoll #Hopi #Pueblo #Katsina #Arizona #PaulEluard #Gala #NativeAmericanArt #NativeAmericanArt #NativeAmerican #NativeAmericanArtCollector #Sold #Archives #ArtCollector #ArtCollection #ArtAdvisor

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