FIG. 24 (above):
Mask.
Ramu River, Papua New
Guinea. Before 1931.
Wood, red pigment. H: 51 cm.
Georges de Miré, Paris; Étude Bellier,
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7 May 1931,
lot 119; Tristan Tzara, Paris; sold
Loudmer, 1988; John and Marcia
Friede, Rye.
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco,
inv. L05.1.305.
114
FIG. 25 (below):
Page from the 1931 AAO
catalog showing fi gure 27.
Image courtesy of the author.
FIG. 26 (above right):
Page from the 1931 AAO
catalog showing fi gures 24
and 28.
Image courtesy of the author.
FIG. 27 (right):
Crouching fi gure.
Iatmul; Sepik River, Papua
New Guinea. Before 1931.
Wood, pigment. H: 45.7 cm.
Étude Bellier, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7
May 1931, lot 133; Pablo Picasso,
Paris (acquired in 1944).
Musée National Picasso, Paris,
inv. 3638.
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée
national Picasso-Paris)/Béatrice
Hatala.
FIG. 28 (far right):
Uli fi gure, selambúngin
sónondos. New Ireland.
17th century (determined
by C-14).
Wood, pigment. H: 98 cm.
Collected by Edgar Walden in
Tegerot, New Ireland, November–
December 1908. Museum für
Volkerkunde, Berlin (1910, inv.
VI34272); Arthur Speyer, Berlin; Ernst
Ascher, Paris; Georges de Miré, Paris;
Étude Bellier, Hôtel Drouot, 7 May
1931, lot 144; Serge and Graziella
Brignoni (until 2000).
Courtesy of Ana & Antonio
Casanovas, Madrid.
Photo: Hughes Dubois.