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The Indonesian Mask...
Indonesia
Facial mask, Wayang Topeng theatre
Island of Java, Indonesia
Polychrome wood (white, black, several shades of red)
Height: 21cm
Former collection of Professor Czeschka, Hamburg; acquired before 1918
The poem in translation:
Bewitcher, I observe
the shapes of girls who pass;
my eyebrows are like a bird
ready to take wing and circle
its prey, my moustache
like a serpent ready
to strike at the least sign
of weakness or assent
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The Indonesian Mask...
Indonesia Facial mask, Wayang Topeng theatre Island of Java, Indonesia Polychrome wood (white, black, several shades of red) Height: 21cm Former collection of Professor Czeschka, Hamburg; acquired before 1918 The poem in translation: Bewitcher, I observe ...
