Borneo 20th C. Painted Wood Mask

Height: ξ13 inches. Width: 16 1/2 inches. Condition: Good.

** A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit The Fowler Museum at UCLA ** Mexico, probably Guerrero, early 20th century CE. This is a painted wood mask with red and gold colors

Latin America, Guatemala, ca. mid 20th century CE. A stunning hand-carved and beautifully-painted wooden mask with engrossing simian features including a wide and flat nose, broad brow, disc-shaped ea

Native American, Arctic region, Inuit peoples, ca. 1940s to 1950s CE. An enigmatic, haunting mask hand-carved in a gently-rounded, elongated ovoid form from yellow cedar. The face has simple features,

Donated By: Artemis Gallery Central America, probably Guatemala (for larger), and Mexico, Yaqui people, (for smaller), ca. 20th century CE. A huge-eyed, orange wood festival mask of zoomorphic form, w

**Originally Listed At $150** Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Bali, early 20th century CE. A fascinating and ornately-carved wooden mask form of a face with sharp canines and a bright red extended tongue.

**Originally Listed At $100** Indonesia, Bali or Java, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wood mask with prominent bulging eyes, a long, pointed, upturned nose, a black coiffure, goatee, attache

**Originally Listed At $100** Indonesia, Bali or Java, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wood mask with prominent bulging eyes, a long, pointed, upturned nose, a black coiffure, goatee, attache

Latin America, Mexico, ca. 20th century CE. A lovely hand-carved wooden carnival or festival mask depicting an older male with a prominent nose, full lips, a black-painted moustache, and an arching br

** A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit The Fowler Museum at UCLA ** Central America, Guatemala, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A well-executed and relatively old Guatem

**Originally Listed At $300** West Africa, Southeastern Nigeria, Ogoni peoples, ca. mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden mask depicting a highly stylized female countenance. The face presents wit

Central America, Guatemala, 20th century CE. A huge wooden mask, painted realistically, showing a pale-complexioned person with blue eyes and straight brown hair. Slits under the eyes provide vision f

**Originally Listed At $500** Mexico, early 20th century. Rare carved wooden festival dance mask painted black with long sinewy snake emerging where nose should be. Snake is painted a vibrant red, gre

**First Time At Auction** West Africa, Burkina Faso, Bozo peoples, ca. early to mid 20th century CE. A fantastic piece, a helmet mask hand-carved from wood depicting an antelope's head with huge, curv

**Originally Listed At $400** Southeast Asia, Indonesia, East Java, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden dance mask painted in dark-red pigment and accentuated with streaks of black

Africa, Nigeria, Ogoni peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. This is a fun example of one of the Ogoni "elu" (spirit) masks, which are cane wood masks with white-painted faces, narrow eyes, promi

**First Time At Auction** Central Asia, Nepal, Himalayan region, ca. first half of the 20th century CE. A striking festival mask, hand-carved from hard wood with bulging eyes, a full nose, tall ears,

**Originally Listed At $300** Central America, Guatemala, ca. first half of the 20th century CE. A wonderful set of 3 hand-carved wooden festival masks depicting mustachioed men, perhaps representing

North America, Alaska, Kodiak Island, Alaskan Native / Inuit people, ca. 1930 to 1940 CE. An interesting and amusing hand-carved wooden mask depicting a comical visage. The ovoid face has a pair of pe

Africa, Nigeria, Ogoni, ca. 1950 CE. A hand-carved and painted face mask featuring a dramatic human face with a tri-lobed, somewhat horn-like coiffure, a tall projection (perhaps a reference to the ya

New World, Guatemala, ca. mid 20th century CE. A fantastical, striking festival mask in the form of a bat, with the head of the animal forming the lower part of the mask; the ears project upward and a

**First Time At Auction** Central Asia, Nepal, ca. early 20th century CE. Carved from a single piece of wood and painted in a vibrant red, black, silver, white, and yellow ochre color scheme, a vibran

** A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit The Fowler Museum at UCLA ** South America, Argentina, ca. 20th century CE. A festive bird mask, hand carved from a single piece of

Wall Mask of Hanuman, the part human / part-monkey deity who is a central character in the Hindu epic Ramayana, roughly 17" x 10" x 6". Minor paint loss.