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female jaguar

Full body mask: Depicting the wife of the jaguar. Colour version black catalogue: The mask depicts the female jaguar (Kobéua: yaui). A headpiece is sewn onto the body, towering over the head of the mask wearer. This is given its shape by an integrated woven cap made of brown strips of cane cut in half and covered in raffia. The raffia covering is wrapped around the tip of the cap and forms a short plait-like rod adorned with an arara feather. The cap and body feature the typical jaguar motif - in this object black circles with a yellowish centre. Below a double line running at arm height is a half-arch painted in black. The circle is joined by a diamond (composite symbol?) in the outlined belt section. The light-coloured sleeves are dotted in black. Index card: mask representing the jaguar's wife.

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Koroá
Object type
Mask
Dimensions
Höhe: 140 cm
Durchmesser: 42/35 cm cm
Material/Technique
Bark pulp , Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
V B 6188

Provenance and sources

where
Colombia [Land]
Rio Negro [Region]
Rio Cuduyarí [Fluss]
who
Kobeua (Kobéua, Cobeua)
Kaúa (Baniwa verwandt)
Koroá

who

Description
Purchase from Theodor Koch-Grünberg in 1907

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