Mauli Mariai Divinity Southern District of Chandrapur, Federated State of Maharashtra, Central India

ETHNOFLORENCE

INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN

FOLK AND TRIBAL ARTS

May 7, 2021

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INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN

COLLECTIONS

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ETHNOFLORENCE SELECTION

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Tribaleglobale

https://www.tribaleglobale.it/

is honored to present an unpublished, rare and evocative collection consisting of 54 sculptures coming mainly from the southern district of Chandrapur, Federated State of Maharashtra, Central India and depicting the divinity Mauli Mariai.

© Photo credit of Tribaleglobale – Photo Composition by Ethnoflorence

They were collected between the sixties and nineties of the last century by Giovanni Boffa, artist, entomologist, diver and great traveler of Turin origin.

© Photo credit of Tribaleglobale – Photo Composition by Ethnoflorence

A pupil of Casorati, he was the author of a cultured and evocative painting, rich in archetypal suggestions.

Here is a preview

© Photo credit of Tribaleglobale – Photo Composition by Ethnoflorence

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© Photo credit of Tribaleglobale – Photo Composition by Ethnoflorence

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Mauli Il Divino Feeminile Secondo La Tradizione Induista

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© Photo credit of Giuliano Arnaldi / Tribaleglobale

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE MATTER

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Die Anderen Götter

(Les Autres Dieux)

© Photo credit of Verlag: Köln, Braus, 1993

Cornelia Mallebrein

Verlag: Köln, Braus, 1993

https://www.abebooks.de/buch-suchen/titel/die-anderen-gotter/autor/cornelia-mallebrein/

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Unknown Figurines From India

© Photo credit of Tribal Art Magazine https://www.tribalartmagazine.com/en/

Bengt Fosshag

Art Tribal 04 Winter 2003

https://www.m-beste.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/B.Fosshag-Unknown-Figurines-from-India.pdf?fbclid=IwAR24tfHVRMA31AIguYz5XPYoaRZpDRlAAU-ZbDfD5W99CSs0jwN-W868D4U

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© Photo credit of Tribaleglobale – Photo Composition by Ethnoflorence

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UPCOMING EVENTS

PARIS TRIBAL

www.paristribal.com

17-22 June 2021

6ème arrondissement de Paris

Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 75006 Paris

© Photo Credit of Paris Tribal www.paristribal.com & https://www.facebook.com/paristribal

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AN EXPLICATED ICONOGRAPHY

Wooden Masked

Sherdukpen Dancers

© Photo Credit of SOAS Library

The masked man on the left represents the father of the two masked figures on the right.

These wooden masked Sherdukpen dancers were figures in a version of a yak dance performed widely across the Tibetan Buddhist world.

These figures are two of the three sons in the story in which one of them was dispossessed but later helped by a yak.

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Past Publications

An Ethnoflorence Selection

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Cadence and Counterpoint: Documenting Santal Musical Traditions

Johannes Beltz, Marie-Eve Celio-Scheurer (eds., Introduction and The Bengt Fosshag Collection), Ruchira Ghose (ed., Preface); with contributions by Albert Lutz (Director, Museum Rietberg, Preface), Deben Bhattacharya (Photographs from 1973), Bengt Fosshag (Building the collection), Jayasri Banerjee (On Santal music and musical instruments), Ludwig Pesch (Serenading the world: The music of the Santals), Marine Carrin (Playing with perspectives: The Santal Baha Festival), Ravi Kant Dwivedi (Photographs from 1988; Chadar-Badar Puppetry; Photographs from 2014), Mushtak Khan, Krittika Narwal and Mallika Leuzinger (From Dumka to New Delhi: Conversations), Sudhanshu Shandilya (Photographs from 2014); Appendixes and photographs (e.g. Myth of the Origin of the Santal, Myth of the Birth of the Bhodro Banam, Making a Banam); Photographs from the 1950s by Alain Daniélou and Raymond Burnier –

Published by Niyogi Books, New Delhi

(2015)

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EXTRACT FROM OUR PHOTO ARCHIVES COLLECTION

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Animistic Nepalese Mask with a Long Nose

Nepalese masks with long nose – double nose – phallic nose – although rare – are certainly known – this small mask (19 x 12 cm) falls into this category.

Photo Ethnoflorence – Ethnoflorence Photo Archives Collection

Photo Ethnoflorence – Ethnoflorence Photo Archives Collection

Photo Ethnoflorence – Ethnoflorence Photo Archives Collection

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BONHAMS African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art the Robert & Nancy Nooter Collection

ETHNOFLORENCE

INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN

FOLK AND TRIBAL ARTS

April 25, 2021

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UPCOMING AUCTIONS

BONHAMS

African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art

Including the Robert & Nancy Nooter Collection

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26876/

May 11, 2021 11:00 AM Est Live Auction New York NY US

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Lot 88

MONPA MASK

Photo Credit of Bonhams New York

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26876/lot/88/

Photo Credit of Bonhams New York

The Ruth and Marc Franklin CollectionMONPA MASK, NEPALWood, pigments
Height 10 1/4in (26cm)

Provenance
Pace African & Oceanic Art, New York
Franklin Family Collection, Portland, Oregon

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UPCOMING SPRING ONLINE EDITION

OF THE TRIBAL ART FAIR AMSTERDAM 2021

https://tribalartfair.nl/ – https://tribalartfair.nl/onlinefair/

https://tribalartfair.nl/ – https://tribalartfair.nl/onlinefair/

29 April – 3 May

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EDITORIAL NEWS

GUIDEBOOK OF NEPALESE MASKS

Frederic Rond

Photo Credit of F. Rond – Galerie Indian Heritage

COMING SOON

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

PARIS

PARIS TRIBAL 2021

GALERIE INDIAN HERITAGE

CATALOGUE

Photo Credit of F. Rond – Galerie Indian Heritage

available online here

Click to access PT2021.pdf

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Publications of the Past

An

Ethnoflorence Selection

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Tribal Art in Europe

Guide 2004

Editions D Book Frederic Dawance

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Masque de danse shamanique anthropomorphe Nepalese – Mask Festival at Namgyal Lhatse Monastery in Tawang – Arunachal Pradesh

ETHNOFLORENCE

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FOLK AND TRIBAL ARTS

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MASK OF THE DAY

I think that the publication of masks recently sold or passed on auction is particularly interesting to understand the orientation of the taste compared to an universe, the one of the so called  folk masks of India and the Himalayas, as rich and varied from an iconographic point of view as profoundly unknown.

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“Masque de danse shamanique anthropomorphe présentant un visage aux arcades sourcilières formant un angle droit avec le nez et une bouche à cavité rectangulaire surmontée d’une moustache sculptée en relief. Bois, ancienne patine d’usage brune et rouge brillante.”

Edited and sold

by

Maîtres

Alain CASTOR et Laurent HARA

 lundi 12 décembre 2011
Drouot Richelieu

lot 272

Estimation 

800/1200

sold for

875 euro

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FOLK

INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN

MASKS

AN HIDDEN HERITAGE

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Today we are going to visit a masked dance  performed close to the Namgyal Lhatse Monastery in Tawang

Arunachal Pradesh India

Photo credit of  Amardeep

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Namgyal Lhatse Monastery in Tawang Arunachal Pradesh India

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Female Goiter Mask

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Twisted Mask

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Monastic dance from Torgya Festival in Arunachal Pradesh, India

http://www.wildfilmsindia.com

Torgya Festival – An epitome of the strength of faith In a remote, barely accessible corner of India’s North Eastern extreme lies the historically important town of Tawang. The headquarter of the Tawang district in the state of Arunachal Pradesh; it is located in close proximity to the Indo – Tibetan and Indo – Bhutanese borders. Synonymous for most Indians with the Indo – China war of 1962, Tawang is a Buddhist majority town with a small population of Bengali shop owners as well. In the month of January every year, when temperatures fall to as low as 15 degrees celcius below freezing, when heavy snowfall and the biting cold bring life to a standstill, a grand structure of Buddhist architecture dating to the seventeenth century gets abuzz with spiritual and religious fervour. Much like other Buddhist monasteries, it is located on a promontory on the outskirts of the city. The second largest Buddhist monastery in the world, outside Lhasa in Tibet, the Gaden Namgyal Lhatse Monastery plays host to a very important Buddhist festival. A festival that is the epitome of the strength of faith. It is the time of the Torgya Festival!! Celebrated to ward off evil spirits and usher in happiness and prosperity, Torgya is a festival of the Monpa tribe of Tibetan Buddhists.

http://www.wildfilmsindia.com

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HIMALAYAN

VINTAGE

BOOKS

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Limited edition of the book

Edizione limitata del libro

“Tibetan Painted Scrolls”

di          by

 Giuseppe Tucci

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/category/arts-premiers-le-sources/

Libreria dello Stato di Roma,

1949

edizione limitata a 750 esemplari

limited edition of 750 books

Extremely rare this iconographic portfolio  originally linked with the two volumes of the famous work by Giuseppe Tucci

“Tibetan Painted Scrolls”

it was printed in limited edition, in English only, from the Italian  Library of the State of Rome in April 1949

The hardcover in red cloth with title and profiles stamped in gold , contains numerous reproductions of wonderful Thangka.

The boards loose, printed on Fabriano paper in color and sepia monochrome, are held together by a cord and classified in alphabetical and numeric order.

The letter W is omitted

(standard procedure of the set).

  256 tables

Photo credit of

Florence Number Nine

http://www.florencenumbernine.com/

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DEUS LOCI

The Nature,  not contained by the balance of the climate, prolific with drunken exuberance:

the man himself is nature

a stunned immobility crystallizes the man

in an inertia  without past,

you move in a virgin soil.

GIUSEPPE TUCCI

https://ethnoflorence.wordpress.com/category/arts-premiers-le-sources/

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ART DE L’HIMALAYA vente Drouot Richelieu Démon Blanc Sherdukpen Masque Marc Petit & Sherdukpen masks an explicated iconography

ETHNOFLORENCE

INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN

FOLK AND TRIBAL ARTS

April 20, 2013

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UPCOMING AUCTIONS

AN ETHNOFLORENCE SELECTION

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ART DE L’AFRIQUE NOIRE
ART ABORIGENE AUSTRALIEN
ART DE L’OCEANIE
ART DE L’HIMALAYA ET D’INDONESIE

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Maîtres Alain CASTOR & Laurent HARA
lundi 25 mars 2013
DROUOT Richelieu, PARIS, salle 15 à 14h

AFTER SALE CATALOGUE

Link: https://www.origineexpert.com/upload/ventes/2013-03-25-C-CASTOR-HARA.pdf 

Link: https://www.origineexpert.com/upload/ventes/2013-03-25-C-CASTOR-HARA.pdf

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Masque en feutre figurant le chasseur ou Démon Blanc.
Ethnie Sherdukpen (Arunachal Pradesh).
22cm
Provenance: Collection Marc Petit.

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Bibliographie: Reproduit dans l’ouvrage: “A Masque découvert, regards sur l’art primitif de l’art primitif de l’Himalaya”. Marc Petit, Ed. Stock, 1995, n°D10

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PHOTO AND TEXT CREDIT

http://www.origineexpert.com/index.php

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Sherdukpen Masks an Explicated Inconography

SHERDUKPEN DANCERS IN ASSAM

1944

Belsiri River, Assam, Balipara District, India

Copyright: SOAS, Nicholas Haimendorf

SOAS Library PPMS_19_6_SHERD_0027*

These masked dancers represent a demon in a Sherdukpen version of Aji Lhamu, a romance widely known in the Tibetan Buddhist world, including the neighbouring Monpas.

SOAS Library PPMS19_6_SHERD_0041

These wooden masked Sherdukpen dancers are figures in a version of a yak dance performed widely across the Tibetan Buddhist world. These figures are two of the three sons in the story, one of whom is dispossessed but later helped by a yak.

SOAS Library PPMS19_6_SHERD_0057

The masked man on the left represents the father of the two figures on the right.

SOAS Library PPMS19_6_SHERD_0056

The deer dance tells the story (of a hunter and his two sons and dog who trap a deer) as a parable about the immorality of killing animals.

SOAS Library PPMS19_6_SHERD_0052

The figures, from right to left, are two queens, a king, a masked demon and two musicians.

SOAS Library PPMS_19_6_SHERD_0025

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Copyright: SOAS, Nicholas Haimendorf

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Extracts from Our Photo Archives Collection

Old Gurung horned mask

Photo & Composition by Ethnoflorence

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MANI RIMDU FESTIVAL TUKUCHE village NEPAL

ETHNOFLORENCE

INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN

FOLK AND TRIBAL ARTS

February 15, 2013

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Mani Rimdu Festival Tukuche Nepal Mustang district in the Dhalawalagiri zone

MANI RIMDU FESTIVAL

TUKUCHE VILLAGE

NEPAL

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Tukuche 

  spelt Tukche

is one of the  villages of the 

Mustang district in the  Dhawalagiri zone of northern Nepal

The village is located in the

Kali Gandaki Gorge

  Thakali people

Photo credit

of

Congochris Photostream

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Mani Rimdu consists in a 19 day sequence of sacred ceremonies  culminating in  3 day  public festival.

The dances, performed by monks are regarded as sacred, and they can be ‘danced’ only in the context of the festival.

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The Ceremony takes place from the first day of the tenth month of the Tibetan lunar calendar, normally falling between the  mid of  October and mid of November, during  until the nineteenth day of the month.

The name of the dances are

Ser-Kyem, Ghing-Pa, Nga-Chhyama, Mi-Tsering, Rol-Cham, Thur-Dhag, Kang-Wa, Mi-Nak, Khandro, Tok-Den, Ngag-Pa, Ti-Cham, Lok-Cham (finishing Dance, that concludes the Mani Rimdu).

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Photo Credit

Congochris Photostream

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BOOK OF THE WEEK

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TRANS HIMALAYA

DISCOVERIES AND ADVENTURE IN TIBET

Sven Hedin

London

1909

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Dancing Nepalese at the New Year Festival

Tashi-Lunpo

Nepalese performing symbolical dances at the New Year Festival

Lamas in dancing masks

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Group of Masked (masks)

Lamas in Hemi Gompa

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Strolling Musicians

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Lama with Flute & Shell Trumpet, used in Religious Services

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Reading Lama with Dorche and Drilbu

Lama with Prayer Drum

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Photographic credit of http://www.archive.org

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FURER HAIMENDORF ARCHIVE

A WEEKLY SELECTION

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MANI RIMDU

THAMI

Solukhumbu district

Nepal

1957

Joker with drum

Copyright

SOAS NICHOLAS HAIMENDORF

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SOAS LIBRARY PPMS19_SHER_0202

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SOAS Library PPMS19_6_SHER_0209

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SHERDUKPEN DANCERS IN ASSAM

1944

Belsiri River, Assam, Balipara District, India

SOAS Library PPMS_19_6_SHERD_0027

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These masked dancers represent a demon in a Sherdukpen version of Aji Lhamu, a romance widely known in the Tibetan Buddhist world, including the neighbouring Monpas.

SOAS Library PPMS19_6_SHERD_0041

SOAS Library PPMS19_6_SHERD_0057

These wooden masked Sherdukpen dancers are figures in a version of a yak dance performed widely across the Tibetan Buddhist world. These figures are two of the three sons in the story, one of whom is dispossessed but later helped by a yak.

SOAS Library PPMS19_6_SHERD_0056

The masked man on the left represents the father of the two figures on the right.

SOAS Library PPMS19_6_SHERD_0052

The deer dance tells the story (of a hunter and his two sons and dog who trap a deer) as a parable about the immorality of killing animals.

SOAS Library PPMS_19_6_SHERD_0025

The figures, from right to left, are two queens, a king, a masked demon and two musicians.

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Copyright: SOAS, Nicholas Haimendorf

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MASK HIMALAYAN MASK SHERDUKPEN MASK QUEENS SHERDUKPEN MASQUE AJI LHAMU BELSIRI RIVER BALIPARA DISTRICT INDIA

ETHNOFLORENCE

INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN

FOLK AND TRIBAL ARTS

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SHERDUKPEN DANCERS IN ASSAM

during meeting with J.P. Mills

Collection: Fürer-Haimendorf

Description:

 These two figures represent queens in a Sherdukpen version of Aji Lhamu, a romance widely known in the
Tibetan Buddhist world, including the neighbouring Monpas. These dancers are performing for J. P. Mills, Adviser to
the Governor of Assam for Tribal Areas. Mills came to meet the Sherdukpen Sat Rajas (‘Seven… Kings’) at their winter
camp on the Belsiri River, east of Charduar, where they presented him with an honorary scarf. Each year Sherdukpens
(and other Arunachal tribes) came to Charduar, in Assam, to receive annual payments from the government. Charduar was
the headquarters of the Balipara Frontier Tract, which included most of the eastern districts of present-day Arunachal
Pradesh, where Sherdukpens (Akas, Mijis, Monpas and Buguns) live. Charduar (‘Four-Door/Gate’) was one of several duars
along the base of the eastern Himalayas where hill tribes came to transact business with the rulers of the plains.
Many tribes received an annual payment (posa) in goods and/or cash in return for not raiding villages in the plains.
For some tribes, these payments continued for several years even after 1947.

 

Catalogue reference: PPMS_19_6_SHERD_0026  
Date/period of original: 16 February 1944
Ethnic group: Sherdukpen
Location: Belsiri River, Assam, Balipara District, India
Copyright: SOAS, Nicholas Haimendorf

SOAS Library PPMS_19_6_SHERD 0026

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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

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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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