NURISTANI BUILDINGS LENNART EDELBERG NEPAL MASKS NEPALESE MASKS NEPAL CROWNED MASK. AUTRES MAITRES DE L’INDE CREATIONS CONTEMPORAINES DES ADIVASI MUSEE DU QUAY BRANLY PARIS

ETHNOFLORENCE

INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN

FOLK AND TRIBAL ARTS

2008 2016

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OTHER MASTERS OF INDIA

EXHIBITION IN PARIS

contemporary creations of the Adivasis
Musee du Quai Branly , Paris.

From  30th march to 18th july 2010

Curators and advisor of the exhibition : Jyotindra Jain,  Jean-Pierre Mohen, Vikas Harish.

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NURISTANI BUILDINGS

LENNART EDELBERG

Jutland Archeological Society Publications XVIII, 1984
Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab, Moesgard, Aerhus.

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PDF VERSION OF THE BOOK HERE 

https://yadi.sk/d/q0IFbNAvV44q8w?fbclid=IwAR3Cwq_a9ab3oyaUmrWdjCWxgOP1u0pu6OBlCAwklxouMEw1GVUf4RIsQ_g

 LENNART EDELBERG
Jutland Archeological Society Publications XVIII, 1984
Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab, Moesgard, Aerhus.

(Back cover)

A rare book devoted to the hidden and unknown culture of the Nuristan.

Absolutely to have.

Nuristsani building components in the MOESGAARD MUSEUM.

Unique documentation.

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HIMALAYAN DRAWINGS

Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich, 2001. 304 pages, 283 colour illustrations, 59  black and white, 1 map.

Robert Powell, Michael Oppitz

About this interesting book, please read the writing of Mr Mark Turin on Digital Himalaya web site:
http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/projectteam/turin/abstracts/br_ethnographicdraughtsman.html

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EXTRACT

FROM ETHNOFLORENCE PHOTO ARCHIVES COLLECTION

CROWNED MASKS OF THE HIMALAYAS

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 Old southern Nepal (?) crowned mask

(Inventory no. 2)

Old Rajbanchi crowned mask

(Inventory no. 19)

Old Himalayan demon mask, Northern Nepal (Inventory no.37)

Ancient crowned southern Nepal

Rajbanchi mask

(Inventory no.18)

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NEPAL MASK Giuseppe Tucci Nepal alla scoperta dei Malla – Humla il Nepal più lontano courtesy of Arte Nomade Walking on the roads of the Western Nepal II -L’ART DES CHAMANES D’HIMALAYA by Myriam Boutoulle on Connaissance des Arts n674 sept

ETHNOFLORENCE

INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN FOLK AND TRIBAL ARTS

Tharu tribal Art. Ethnoflorence Photo Archive 1990 2019

2008 2016

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

GIUSEPPE TUCCI

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/category/collection-giuseppe-tucci/

ALLA

SCOPERTA DEI MALLA

Leonardo Da Vinci Editrice

Bari 1960

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L’ART DES CHAMANES D’HIMALAYA

an interesting article by Myriam Boutoulle  on Connaissance des Arts n674 sept 2009

Among the interesting chapters: Pouvoirs et rites de possession, Au rytme de la trance, Des masques pour quel usage?

Side the text a shaman  picture from Renzo Freschi collection, pieces from Musee de la Castre of Cannes, Marc Petit, Durand Dessert, Christian Lequindre Collections.

Two other chapters are then devoted to “L’Art Tribal d’Himalaya au Quai Branly” and “Les collectionneurs privés et leur trésor”.

Last but not the least the final chapter devoted to the new stuff of the Musee de la Castre of Cannes , the exhibition “Masques de l’Himalaya” at Martigny http://www.letoitdumonde.net/actualites/index.html .

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Interesting the list of recent catalogues edited on the matter, “Masques de l’Himalaya” under the direction of Mr  Francois Pannier,   “Nepal shamanisme et sculpture tribale” by Marc Petit and Christian Lequindre, “Himalayas Art and Shamans” Eric Chazot Liliane and Michel Durand Dessert, “Sculptures de bois au Nepal, buffons et protecteurs” B. Goy and Max Itzikovitz, the three catalogues of the Galerie le Toit du Monde of the 2007 devoted the the “Art chamanique népalais”.

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WALKING ON THE ROADS OF WESTERN NEPAL

no I

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/nepal-mask-himalayan-tribal-art-walking-on-the-roads-of-the-western-nepal-humla-region-upper-dolpo-nepal/

 

 

 Photo courtesy of  PARLERDELLES OVERBLOG

See more on

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/nepal-mask-himalayan-tribal-art-walking-on-the-roads-of-the-western-nepal-humla-region-upper-dolpo-nepal/

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WALKING ON THE ROADS OF WESTERN NEPAL

II

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Photo courtesy of Simon 101)

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NEPAL

SHAMANISM AND TRIBAL SCULPTURE

 Christian Lequindre, Marc Petit

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/nepal-chamanisme-et-sculpture-tribale-christian-lequindre-marc-petit-nepal-tribal-art/

&

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/category/collection-christian-lequindre/

.

 In collaboration with NEPAL TRIBAL ART

see more on:

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/category/collection-christian-lequindre/

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A SELECTION OF PICTURES FROM THE PAST EXHIBITION

HUMLA IL NEPAL PIU’ LONTANO

Mostra fotografica-video-convegno Provincia di Macerata, RIDS Nepal, Is.I.A.O. Roma, Arte Nomade

Photo courtesy of Arte Nomade

http://www.artenomade.com/progetti_multimediali/attuali/Mustra_Humla/humla.htm                               http://www.artenomade.com/progetti_multimediali/attuali/Mustra_Humla/humla_pdf.pdf

Courtesy of Arte Nomade  http://www.artenomade.com

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NEPAL FIGURE

(Inventory no 22)

 (Ethnoflorence Himalayan Photo Archive)

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WESTERN NEPAL

THE ARCHETYPAL ICONOGRAPHY OF A LIVING TRADITION

PART I

 Photo courtesy Jean Claude Latombe

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/nepal-mask-himalayan-tribal-art-western-nepal-the-archetypic-iconography-of-an-artistic-living-tradition-western-nepal-humla-region/

See more on

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/nepal-mask-himalayan-tribal-art-western-nepal-the-archetypic-iconography-of-an-artistic-living-tradition-western-nepal-humla-region/

 WESTERN NEPAL

THE ARCHETYPAL ICONOGRAPHY OF A LIVING TRADITION

PART II

 Photo courtesy of   Reto Niederhauser

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/himalayan-tribal-art-western-nepal-the-archetypic-iconography-of-a-living-artistic-tradition-part-ii/

See more on

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/himalayan-tribal-art-western-nepal-the-archetypic-iconography-of-a-living-artistic-tradition-part-ii/

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THARU ART OF NEPALESE TERAI

 

 

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SANTAL PEOPLE TRIBAL ARTS

A RESUME

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SEE MORE ON 

TRIBAL ARTS OF THE SANTAL PEOPLE

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/tribal-arts-of-the-santal-

SANTAL PANELS

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/santal-parganas-people-carved-wodden-panels-of-the-wedding-litters-palkee/

SANTAL BANAM

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/21-dhodro-banam-santal-banam-santal-people-lutes-anthropomorphic-lutes-indian-tribal-art-with-a-writing-of-the-french-artist-fernandez-arman-15-liuti-tribali-antropomorfi-dei-santal-del-nord-indi/

SANTAL FLUTES

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/4-tribal-santal-flutes-santal-people-tribal-art-4-rari-flauti-tribali-dei-santal-people-nord-india/

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 MEET HIMALAYAN SPIRITS IN SEOUL

An exhibition of nepalese shamanic art of the 2008 in Seoul.

See more on http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2009/10/148_35487.html

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ETHNOFLORENCE

INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN FOLK AND TRIBAL ARTS

WESTERN NEPAL THE ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC LIVING TRADITION II

2008-2016

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WESTERN NEPAL

THE ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF A LIVING

TRADITION PART I

See more on

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/nepal-mask-himalayan-tribal-art-walking-on-the-roads-of-the-western-nepal-humla-region-upper-dolpo-nepal/

Nepalese animistic Shrine – painted figure in namaste posture

See more on

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/nepal-mask-himalayan-tribal-art-walking-on-the-roads-of-the-western-nepal-humla-region-upper-dolpo-nepal/

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MUSEE DE LA CASTRE 

CANNES

FRANCE, Himalayan Classic, Folk and Tribal Arts new stuff.

ETHNOFLORENCE Indian and Himalayan Folk and Tribal arts photo Archive.

MUSEE DE LA CASTRE NEW ROOM

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/musee-de-la-castre-cannes-france-himalayan-classic-folk-and-tribal-arts-new-stuff-ethnoflorence-indian-and-himalayan-folk-and-tribal-arts-photo-archive/

MUSEE DE LA CASTRE OLD ROOM

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/musee-de-la-castre-of-cannes-himalayan-room/

 

MUSEE DE LA CASTRE NEW ROOM

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/musee-de-la-castre-cannes-france-himalayan-classic-folk-and-tribal-arts-new-stuff-ethnoflorence-indian-and-himalayan-folk-and-tribal-arts-photo-archive/

MUSEE DE LA CASTRE OLD ROOM

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/musee-de-la-castre-of-cannes-himalayan-room/

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WESTERN NEPAL

THE ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF A LIVING TRADITION

PART II

Photo courtesy of   Reto Niederhauser 

Protective figure on the roof of the house – in namaste posture

Copyright Reto Niederhauser 

Anthropomorphic pole with a dark colored face

Copyright Reto Niederhauser 

Copyright Reto Niederhauser  

Copyright Reto Niederhauser 

 Copyright Reto Niederhauser 

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WESTERN NEPAL

THE ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF A LIVING TRADITION

PART III

 

COMING SOON

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EIDOS COLLECTION OF WESTERN FIGURE

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NEPALESE FIGURE

(Inventory no 18)

-PRIMITIVE FIGURE FROM ETHNOFLORENCE COLLECTION

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Nepal Ritual Pictures of the Early 70’s 

COMING SOON

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WALKING ON THE ROADOF THE WESTERN NEPAL

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Last Updating 11.20.2020

NEPAL MASK HIMALAYAN TRIBAL ART WALKING ON THE ROADS OF THE WESTERN NEPAL. Humla region Upper dolpo Nepal.

ETHNOFLORENCE

INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN FOLK AND TRIBAL ARTS

2008-2016

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WESTERN NEPAL

ARCHETYPAL

ICONOGRAPHY OF A LIVING

TRADITION

PART II

COMING SOON

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NEPAL RITUAL PICTURES OF THE EARLY 70’S

 Coming soon

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WESTERN NEPAL ARCHETYPAL ICONOGRAPHY OF A LIVING TRADITION

PART I

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/nepal-mask-himalayan-tribal-art-western-nepal-the-archetypic-iconography-of-an-artistic-living-tradition-western-nepal-humla-region/

 

See more on

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/nepal-mask-himalayan-tribal-art-western-nepal-the-archetypic-iconography-of-an-artistic-living-tradition-western-nepal-humla-region/

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WALKING ON THE ROADS OF WESTERN NEPAL

Photo courtesy of Parledelles

http://parlerdelles.over-blog.com/

WALKING ON THE ROADS OF WESTERN NEPAL Photo courtesy of Parledelles 

 

Photo courtesy of 

PARLERDELLES OVERBLOG  

http://parlerdelles.over-blog.com/

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NEPAL

SHAMANISM AND TRIBAL SCULPTURE

Marc Petit – Chritian Lequindre                                                   

 

In collaboration with NEPAL TRIBAL ART

see more on:

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/category/collection-christian-lequindre/ 

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EIDOS

COLLECTION OF WESTERN NEPAL FIGURE

 

(Photo courtesy of Eidos collection)

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NEPALESE FIGURE

(Inventory no 88)

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-MAUJA VILLAGE, KASKI DISTRICT,  Nepal circa 1973-74
(Photo courtesy Tod Ragsdale http://taragsdalephotos.com/)

-Mauja is a Gurung village  of  Kaski District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal, the photo was took by the photographer Tod Ragsdale in the early 70’s.

 According  Mr. Christian Lequindre opinion,  the Masta culte, linked to those kind of sort of  AXIS MUNDI  POLES , is sporadically spread till the western central region despite most of the scholar of the matter limite than to the Karnali area.

That’s an evident example in Gurung village context, the pic was took in 1973/74.

As demonstrated by mr Christhian in his recent catalogue there are also wooden poles in the eastern area of Nepal, but refering  there to ancestors and funerary cult.

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Last Updating 12.15.2020

NEPAL MASK HIMALAYAN TRIBAL ART WESTERN NEPAL, THE ARCHETYPAL ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC LIVING TRADITION. WESTERN NEPAL HUMLA REGION

ETHNOFLORENCE

INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN

FOLK AND TRIBAL ARTS

2008-2016

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WESTERN NEPAL

THE ARCHETYPAL ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC LIVING TRADITION

Photo courtesy of Jean Claud Latombe

http://ai.stanford.edu/~latombe/mountain/index.htm

“…La natura non contenuta dall’equilibrio del clima prolifica con ebbra esuberanza: l’uomo stesso è natura, una immobilità stupefatta lo cristalizza in una inerzia senza passato; ti muovi in un terreno vergine…”

“… Nature not contained by the equilibrium of the climate proliferates with intoxicated exuberance: man himself is nature, an astonished immobility crystallizes him in an inertia without a past; you move in virgin ground …”

(GIUSEPPE TUCCI about the Humla region).

“Giuseppe Tucci ricorda come nella regione di Humla si trovassero dei templi dal carattere e stile primitivo,  aperti sul davanti,  il tetto  in paglia  appoggiato su possenti tronchi d’albero, dall’aspetto non dissimile da   quello delle capanne o dei sacrari dell’Assam e della Polinesia , nell’interno  figure di legno scolpite in uno stile frontale rappresentavano nell’immobile ed atemporale  fissità dei volti  le immagini dei donatori, famiglie intere in attonita attesa  poste  intorno ad una  informe pietra, in cui sembrava celarsi  la misteriosa  presenza divina …” (free and personal reinterpertation by Ethnoflorence of an original writing  of G.Tucci,  libera e personale  reinterpertazione il cui spunto è tratto da un testo originale di Giuseppe Tucci)

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“Giuseppe Tucci remembers how in the Humla region there were temples with a primitive character and style, open at the front, the thatched roof resting on mighty tree trunks, with an appearance not unlike that of the huts or shrines of Assam and of Polynesia, in the interior wooden figures carved in a frontal style represented in the motionless and timeless fixity of the faces the images of the donors, entire families in astonishment placed around a shapeless stone, in which the mysterious divine presence seemed to hide. .. “(free and personal reinterpertation by Ethnoflorence of an original writing of G.Tucci, free and personal reinterpertation whose inspiration is taken from an original text by Giuseppe Tucci)

“Giuseppe Tucci annota come il  Il pandit che gli faceva da guida  si rifiutasse di definire  Induismo la religione delle genti di questa regione,  che con disprezzo   definiva    superstiziosa adorazione di spiriti e demoni, nel termine locale bhut, entità insidiose e vendicative. La paura delle entità ostili ed  invisibili sembrava  incombere e pervadere tutto  intorno,  minacciando i viandanti  da ogni altura  di colle oppure  dai temuti  rami degli alberi maledetti, sui rami dei quali, brandelli di stoffa colorata, appesi dal viandante timoroso, ad ogni alito  di vento prolungavano invisibili  esorcismi…”(free and personal reinterpertation by Ethnoflorence of an original writing  of G.Tucci,  libera e personale  reinterpertazione il cui spunto è tratto da un testo originale di Giuseppe Tucci)

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“Giuseppe Tucci notes how the pundit who guided him refused to define Hinduism as the religion of the people of this region, which he scornfully defined as superstitious worship of spirits and demons, in the local term bhut, insidious and vengeful entities. hostile and invisible entities seemed to loom and pervade all around, threatening the travelers from every height of the hills or from the feared branches of cursed trees, on the branches of which, shreds of colored cloth, hung by the fearful traveler, with every breath of wind prolonged invisible exorcisms … “(free and personal reinterpertation by Ethnoflorence of an original writing of G.Tucci, free and personal reinterpertation whose inspiration is taken from an original text by Giuseppe Tucci)

“Circa la credenza di alberi creduti maledetti Giuseppe Tucci sottolineva come Devozione non fosse probabilmente la parola più appropiata, per definire il sentimento che ispiravano nei viandanti,  perché era certamente più  la paura il sentimento che li portava  a dedicare una preghiera o ad annodare un brandello di stoffa sui rami di questi alberi trasformati così in muti e temuti simulacri.” Free and personal reinterpertation by Ethnoflorence of an original writing  of G.Tucci,  libera e personale  reinterpertazione il cui spunto è tratto da un testo originale di Giuseppe Tucci)

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“Regarding the belief in trees believed to be cursed, Giuseppe Tucci underlined how Devotion was probably not the most appropriate word, to define the feeling they inspired in travelers, because fear was certainly more the feeling that led them to dedicate a prayer or to tie a shred of cloth on the branches of these trees thus transformed into dumb and feared simulacra. ” Free and personal reinterpertation by Ethnoflorence of an original writing of G.Tucci, free and personal reinterpertation whose inspiration is taken from an original text by Giuseppe Tucci)

Una donna che  non voleva farsi ardere nel rogo del marito morto, secondo una antica tradizione indiana, fu uccisa dai suoi parenti, da quel giorno si trasformò in un vendicativo BHUT che insidiava tutti coloro che non le dimostravano devozione … i bhut più temuti e rispettati sono comunque quelli che aleggiano nei pressi dei ponti o degli scoscesi  sentieri sospesi nel vuoto, lì il viandante deve prestare molta attenzione e devozione. Giuseppe Tucci riporta la storia di un ponte particolarmente temuto, quello di Cotbara, lì si credeva  dimorasse  lo spirito di un  brahamano che si era suicidato proprio in quel luogo. Nessuno osava attraversare quel ponte una volta calato il sole.”…”(free and personal reinterpertation by Ethnoflorence of an original writing  of G.Tucci,  libera e personale  reinterpertazione il cui spunto è tratto da un testo originale di Giuseppe Tucci)

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A woman who did not want to be burned in the stake of her dead husband, according to an ancient Indian tradition, was killed by her relatives, from that day she turned into a vengeful BHUT who threatened all those who did not show her devotion … the most feared bhoots and respected are however those who hover near bridges or steep paths suspended in the void, there the traveler must pay a lot of attention and devotion. Giuseppe Tucci relates the story of a particularly feared bridge, that of Cotbara, where the spirit of a Brahman who had committed suicide was believed to dwell there. Nobody dared to cross that bridge once the sun went down. “… free and personal reinterpertation by Ethnoflorence of an original writing of G.Tucci, free and personal reinterpertation whose inspiration is taken from an original text by Giuseppe Tucci-

Photo courtesy Jean Claude Latombe.

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/category/collection-jean-claud-latombe/

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NEPAL

SHAMANISM AND TRIBAL SCULPTURE

  Christian Lequindre, Marc Petit.

In collaboration with NEPAL TRIBAL ART

see more on:

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/nepal-chamanisme-et-sculpture-tribale-christian-lequindre-marc-petit-nepal-tribal-art/

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/nepal-chamanisme-et-sculpture-tribale-christian-lequindre-marc-petit-nepal-tribal-art/

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-NEPALESE SHAMANS, PICTURES FROM THE VERY EARLY  70’s, courtesy of  KRISHNA S.BEUTEL, pieces from Richard Lair (FRA) and Bill Marsh (USA) Collection.

Richard Lair Collection a sensitive selection on

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/nepal-mask-himalayan-tribal-art-richard-lair-collection-a-sensitive-selection/

Bill Marsh’s complete shaman kit on

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/nepal-shaman-art-tamang-shaman-kit-bill-marsh-collection-faces-of-devotion-indian-sculpture-from-the-figiel-collection-on-view-april-10-2010-to-january-16-2012-peabody-essex-museum-salem-ma/

 

 

(Photo courtesy KRISHNA S.BEUTEL, Richard Lair, Bill Marsh).

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-ANTHROPOMORPHIC NEPALESE FRONT COVER BOOK

from Ethnoflorence Collection.

 

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HIMALAYA

by Jean Pierre GIROLAMI catalogue 

Ilda Suarez Opt’image of the exhibition of the 1997 in Blagnac (FRA) .

Small but interesting catalogue by Jean Pierre GIROLAMI , passionate supporter of the Himalayan field, he was one of the first to documentate the unknown art of western Nepal.

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EIDOS COLLECTION

OF WESTERN NEPAL FIGURE

a new friend of Ethnoflorence, coming soon

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-MAMOIADA, A LIVING TRADITION AN ICONOGRAPHIC COMPARATION

In collaboration with the MUSEO DELLE MASCHERE MEDITERRANEE di MAMOIADA, coming soon.

 

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MUSEE DE LA CASTRE

CANNES FRANCE

– MUSEE DE LA CASTRE, CANNES, FRANCE,

Himalayan Classic, Folk and Tribal Arts new stuff. ETHNOFLORENCE Indian and Himalayan Folk and Tribal arts photo Archive. 

MUSEE DE LA CASTRE NEW ROOM

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/musee-de-la-castre-cannes-france-himalayan-classic-folk-and-tribal-arts-new-stuff-ethnoflorence-indian-and-himalayan-folk-and-tribal-arts-photo-archive/

MUSEE DE LA CASTRE OLD ROOM

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/musee-de-la-castre-of-cannes-himalayan-room/

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updating 12.01.2020