Heaume mask from the JEMEZ pueblo: "DAWIJE" with visor. JEME - Lot 3

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Heaume mask from the JEMEZ pueblo: "DAWIJE" with visor. JEME - Lot 3
Heaume mask from the JEMEZ pueblo: "DAWIJE" with visor. JEMEZ, Rio Grande, New Mexico. Circa 1880. Natural pigments, leather, vegetable strands, corn. Parchment skin mask, natural chlorophyll green pigments, rectangular incised eyes within a black-painted triangle. The four corners of the mask are crossed with lightning bolts painted blue, red and yellow, small red-tinted leather ears, the visor decorated with the colors of the rainbow in a vegetable strand tied with a corn leaf coil. On the reverse, a small vertical line of paired colors symbolizes rain. The incised base forms petals and is adorned with leather cords. Height: 29 cm - Diameter: 20 cm - Length: 32 cm On black metal base. Provenance: Neret-Minet Tessier Sarrou sale, April 12, 2013, no. 36
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