ORIGENES 2005

Official exhibition curated by Ana & Antonio Casanovas for Madrid House Council Museum. This exhibition showed, for the first time in Spain, 150 exceptional Primitive Artworks “hidden” in museums and private collections around the two countries.

BUST

Inuit Yupik, Alaska
Wood, leather, H. 25,5 cm
XVIII C
Ex. col. Museo de América, Madrid

HEI TIKI

Maori, New Zealand, Polynesia
Jade, H. 9cm
Te Tipugna Period: 1200-1500
Ex. Col. Bela Hein, Paris
Exhibited in: Galerie Pigalle , Paris, 1930

TCHOKWE

Angola
Wood, hair and copper, 43x16x22.5 cm
XIX C or earlier
Collected by Oliveira.
Natural History Museum of Oporto University, Portugal.

ANITO

Kankanay, Philippines
Wood, ceramic and human hair, H. 35,5 cm
XVIII-XIX C
Ex. col. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Madrid, inv.1971