Description
Lintel decorated with heads, Taiwan, Yami L. 270 cm. Wood The lintel is decorated with a frieze in light relief of juxtaposed heads that seem to be linked together. It is not known whether this is a gallery of portraits of ancestors or whether it represents the shelf where the trophies of the head hunters were displayed. Provenance: 1990-2022. Collection Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris Acquired from the Mon Steyaert Gallery, Brussels. Exhibition : Galerie Hélène Kamer (Leloup), Paris, 1973. Publication: Hélène Kamer (Leloup), Arts of Taiwan, exhibition catalog, 1973. cat.14
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Lintel decorated with heads, Taiwan, Yami L. 270 cm. Wood The lintel is decorated with a frieze in light relief of juxtaposed heads that seem to be linked together. It is not known whether this is a gallery of portraits of ancestors or whether it represents the shelf where the trophies of the head hunters were displayed. Provenance: 1990-2022. Collection Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris Acquired from the Mon Steyaert Gallery, Brussels. Exhibition : Galerie Hélène Kamer (Leloup), Paris, 1973. Publication: Hélène Kamer (Leloup), Arts of Taiwan, exhibition catalog, 1973. cat.14