Moriarty Wandam or Brag Mask

Provenance: Provenance :
Former Stanley Gordon Moriarty Collection (1906-1978), Australia. A photo taken in the Moriarty Library room shows the mask on the wall**.
Ex Chris Boylan, Sydney.
Ex. Coll. Daniel Vigne, Paris.
Galerie Meyer, Paris.
Private Parisian collection.

Literature: See an almost identical mask collected in the village of Awar and sold by the Galerie Voyageurs et Curieux, Paris, then Collection P. L., Netherlands, then Galerie Meyer, Paris; now in a European collection. *Jean-Edouard Carlier of the Galerie Voyageurs et Curieux calls this type of mask Wandam while general literature places it in the category of Brag.

Cf. for a very similar mask from the village of Singrin, see the collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, inv. no. 79.1.1299 and reproduced in Nicolas, A., Art Papou: Austronesians and Papuans of New Guinea, Marseille, 2000, p. 253, fig. 248. For another similar mask, see the collection of the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, inv. no. VI 19316 and reproduced in Peltier, P. et al., Sepik: Arts de Papua New Guinea, Paris, 2015, p. 251, fig. 130.

See the photo of Tony Tuckson (left) and Stan Moriarty (right)
​​​​​​​See the photo of the Moriarty library with the mask on the wall**