Bulul sculpture
Kiangan style
carved wood, fabric, shell
early 20th century
Lucon island, Philippines
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Luba or Luba-Kusu
Power Figurine
wood, metal, antelope horns
early 20th century
Congo (DRC)
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'Malagan' Figure
carved wood, pigment
Papua New Guinea
late 19th century
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One of the greatest Nias statues (siraha salawa) extant, representing an important chiefly ancestor. This statue has a well-documented history in Europe, as it once belonged to the cosmetics magnate Helena Rubinstein. She was dubbed "the empress of beauty" by Jean Cocteau, as much for her outstanding collection of art as for her business acumen. This statue was the subject of a famous 1926 photograph taken by the famed Dadaist and conceptual artist Man Ray. "The Moon Rises over the Island of Nias" appeared on the cover of an inaugural exhibition at the Galerie Surréaliste entitled Tableaux de Man Ray et objects des îles. On that occasion, Man Ray's photographs were displayed alongside more than sixty sculptures from Indonesia and the Pacific Islands that had been loaned from the legendary collection of André Breton.
La lune se lève sur l'île de Nias
gelatin silver print
1926
Man Ray
(1890-1976)
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Female Figure
wood and beads
Early/mid–20th century
Probably Hehe
Tanzania
Eastern and Southern Africa
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Figure (Mbulu Ngulu)
Late 19th-early 20th century
Kota: Mindumu or Obamba
Gabon
Central Africa
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