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Moon Dancers : Yup'ik Masks and the Surrealists

Exposition à la Galerie Di Donna de New-York en 2018.

Dates26/04/2018 - 29/06/2018
Current Location
CategoriesExpositions récentes, 1966 à aujourd'hui
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A Kinugumiut or Napaskiak Mask

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Mask representing a human face pigmented in two colors, the top part is a yellow ochre and the details of the face are colored in red.

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Yup'ik Mask

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This mask with a distorted face, property of a shaman, was used during ceremonies of evocation and the representation of spirits, which could inspire a state of trance and premonitory vision in the shaman.