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SHAMANS,
ANCESTORS AND DONORS
A look at tribal arts and cultures in old Asia

Ceremonial mask
Rai or Limbu, Eastern Nepal
Wood, fiber, staples, kamero (white-clay pigment)
117 years old (± 30); C14 , test no. 23699, Radiocarbon Dating Lab University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
H. 33 cm.

Christian Lequindre Collection

A helmet mask perhaps representing an archetypal ban-jhakri, the old hirsute superhuman being who kidnaps future shamans in order to initiate them.
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