Dan artist – Face Mask – Dan peoples – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/310746
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Excavated before 1902 from Ōtsuka-yama kofun (burial mound), Sakume-ch�, Matsuzaka City, Mie Prefecture, Japan;Dr. Seki Yasunosuke, Japan (until 1927; his sale, Ky�to Bijutsu Kurabu, Ky�to, November 28, 1927, no
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This beautifully crafted figure is constructed from 16 separate pieces of wood (14 of which are extant) attached with dowels, mortise and tenons, adhesive, and plaster. Starting at the top, the sections are as follows: crown; head, torso and right leg; left leg; wedge between left leg and body; right arm; left arm; left forearm; right forefoot; left forefoot; wedge between fore and back left foot; front kilt section; back kilt section; beard (now missing); crook in left hand; scepter? (now missing) in right hand; and base
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collection/search/912961 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/912961 Link
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Purchased in Luxor by Reverend Randolph Berens, ca. 1894. Later in Bruce collection, sold at Sotheby’s, Jan. 18, 1951, no. 286. Purchased by Albert Gallatin at a private sale at Spinks, London, 1951. Exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum, December 1959 – February 1960, and published in the exhibition’s catalog, 1961
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Their design and decorative techniques link them to other pieces of fine metalwork
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