/ 30 May 2016 - ART AMERINDIEN, ART PRECOLOMBIEN, AFRIQUE ET OCEANIE
Auction 30 May 2016 ART AMERINDIEN, ART PRECOLOMBIEN, AFRIQUE ET OCEANIE - Paris
Bid on the lot list Eve : 30 May 2016 - <strong>ART AMERINDIEN, ART PRECOLOMBIEN, AFRIQUE ET OCEANIE</strong><br /><br /><u>Contact :</u> <br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Alain Leroy</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Commissaire-priseur habilité</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Titulaire d’un office de commissaire-priseur judiciaire</span><br /><br /><strong>Quelques citations</strong><br /> <br /><em>Dans « The Hopi Tutuveni », journal de la tribu Hopi , July 1, 2014, première page</em><br /><em>« Even in the United States there is no U.S. law against sacred Native American art and artifacts being collected or sold by private owners. »</em><br /> <br /><em>Dan Talayesva écrit, relatant la mort de son oncle, le chef Tawaquaptewa lui remis les masques de son oncle</em><br /><em>«On a partagé ce qui restait de la propriété de mon oncle...moi j’ai reçu trois très anciens masques sacrés...»</em><br /><em>Soleil Hopi, ed Terre des Hommes, pg 397</em><br /> <br /><em>«Also, whereas the man owns the masks and ceremonial equipment, under Hopi common law these figurines ( les poupées kachinas) belong to the woman....»</em><br /><em>Frederick Dockstader, The Kachina and the White Man,</em><br /><em>University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque (1954) rédition 1993, page 97</em><br /> <br /><em>« in the case of the regular Kuitu masks, these are personnal property...He may own several , if he is quite active in the Kachina rites, but the masks are inherited</em><br /><em>by his son, brother or nephew. These masks may be repainted to represent various Kachina beings, as desired. When they become to badly wornout to</em><br /><em>allow further use, any usefull parts ( ears, snout etc) are salvaged the rest is discarted.....»</em><br /><em>Frederick Dockstader, The Kachina and the White Man, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque (1954) rédition 1993, page 33</em><br /> <br /><em>«There are two kinds of kachinas which are quite distinct. Most of them are chosen according to the desires of the people, the masks are painted and redecorated</em><br /><em>for each appereance. However, there is another type called Chief Kachinas, whose masks are permanent and are carefully kept in the back room of the houses.</em><br /><em>The right to have these masks and to wear them is heredetary....»</em><br /><em>Edwin Earle pg 6 in 1938, Hopi Katchinas, New York, JJ Augustin</em><br /> <br /><em>« Each year after Ca’lako everyone takes his masks out to Red Earth. Each man takes his own masks, and if a man has more than one he takes them all.....</em><br /><em>There may be a thousand masks there, or several thousand, perhaps...»</em><br /><em>Bunzel pg 855 in 1932, Zuni Katcinas, Bureau of American Ethnology, Report 47</em><br /> <br /><em>« A man will have a mask made as soon as he is able to afford the expense involved» et pg 849 « If a man is poor he can not have a mask»</em><br /><em>Bunzel pg 848 in 1932, Zuni Katcinas, Bureau of American Ethnology, Report 47</em><br /> <br /><em>«....the mariage tie is britttle....</em><br /><em>To divorce him, she has but to pile his belongings outside the ladder; his box of valuable feathers and willow sticks cut for prayer sticks, his mask, rattle,</em><br /><em>danse kilt, and mocassins»</em><br /><em>Pearson Elsie Clews « Pueblo indian religion» T 1, pg 42 , siting Benedict</em><br /> <br /><em>«Kachina danse masks...are personal property and are inherited by brother, nephew or son, are kept at home or in a kiva....» Salle 1 - Hôtel Drouot - Paris
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