01.05.2011
KHENIS GHOST EATERS IN TANGBE VILLAGE LOWER MUSTANG NEPAL
The KHENIS or GHOST EATERS are protective figure that can be found at the entrance gates of some villages of the
LOWER MUSTANG (Baragun Area), after KAGBENI and JHARKOT (DZAR), we edit in this post the pictures of the protective
IWI (grand mother) and MEME (grand father) KHENIS gost eaters of the TANGBE village.
Each KHENIS figure is re-painted each year for the LUKOR festival (circumbulation of the village area).
This kind of protective representations are not found in the villages of the upper Mustang.
In this area the protection of the village area from malevolent spirits is done mainly by the edification of "RIGSUM GOMPO"
along the four cardinal directions and "LHATOS" in specific places of the village area.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ETIENNE PRINCIPAUD
Picture n1 IWI and MEME at the entrance gate of Jharkot (Dzar) 2004.
Picture n2 IWI Kagbeni 2007
Picture n3 MEME figure at the entrance gate of Tangbe 2010
Picture n4 MEME figure at the entrance gate of Tangbe 2010 detail.
Picture n5 IWI figure in Tangbe 2010.
Picture n6 IWI figure in Tangbe 2010 detail.
Picture n7 IWI figure in Tangbe 2010 detail.







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27.03.2011
KHENIS, GHOST EATERS FIGURE IN KAGBENI AND JHARKOT VILLAGES; MOUD MODELLED PRIMITIVE FACES IN TANGBE AND STOD-PA VILLAGES NEPAL
KHENIS, GHOST EATERS FIGURE IN KAGBENI and JHARKOT VILLAGES, NEPAL
Kagbeni is a fortified two gates medioeval village located in a strategic place at the cofluence of two river valleys, situated in a fertile area.
During the 19th century the human guards of the gates become superfluous and were replaced with two human figure moulded from clay each named KHENIS or Ghost Eaters, primitive iconographic subjects probably remanants of the ancient BON religion. (Photo 7)
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The use of the same figure and iconography it's possible to find also in the village of Jharkot. (Photo 1-6)
Kagbeni and Jharkot are the only places in the Nepalese bhuddist area of infleunce in which are moulded complete protective primitive figure as well as the Khenis.
Smilar moud representations, but limited to simple molded faces, can be found, however, one in the Mustang village of Tangbe, in which there is a face modelled in the moud, carved above the entrance of the village, to symbolise probably an ancestor, documented by Robert Powell.
The other provided by Henri Bancaud, represent's human grotesque faces moulded on the earthen walls of the village of Stod-pa in the Nymba area, probably 'used' to keep away the deceased spirits (according the opinion of B.Goy, 'Wood sculpture in Nepal Jokers and Talismans' 5 Continents edition)
(drawing n 8)
These moud faces have a strong similarity with some of the so called 'primitive' masks of the Nepalese areas







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13.05.2010
KATMANDU SHRINES, INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK, -MASKS OF THE HIMALAYAS PACE PRIMITIVE Gallery NEW YORK, HIMALAYAN FOLK AND TRIBAL ART
KATMANDU SHRINES, PART I
Photo kindly courtesy of Moj Gan



Photo courtesy of Moj Gan
-KHENIS, GHOST EATERS FIGURE IN KAGBENI VILLAGE, NEPAL.
Kagbeni is a fortified two gates medioeval village located in a strategic place at the cofluence of two river valleys, situated in a fertile area.
During the 19th century the human guards of the gates become superfluous and were replaced with two human figure moulded from clay each named KHENIS or Ghost Eaters, primitive iconographic subjects probably remanants of the ancient BON religion.




Photo credit:
www.trekearth.com/gallery/photo481538.htm
www.travelpod.com and www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/inoursuitcase/freed...
-WESTERN NEPAL, THE ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC LIVING TRADITION I
Photo courtesy of Jean Claud Latombe

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-WESTERN NEPAL, THE ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC LIVING TRADITION PART II
Photo courtesy of Reto Niederhauser

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-WESTERN NEPAL, THE ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC LIVING TRADITION III
Photo courtesy of Paulo Grobel

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MASKS OF THE HIMALAYA: ETHNOFLORENCE AND INDIPENDENT POINT OF VIEW






Ethnoflorence Himaalayan photo Archive
-MASKS OF THE HIMALAYAS PACE PRIMITIVE Gallery NEW YORK, October 26 - December 1990, curated by LISA BRADLEY and with the contribute of Eric Chazot.
Front cover: Tibet Gonpo mask,
Catalog designed by Abby Goldstein and Julian Peploe
Photography by Malcom Varon and Sarah Wells.
Printed in Italy by LS Graphic Inc.
Library of Congress Catalog card number: 90-83431


Catalogo storico per le arti popolari della regione Himalayana, accanto a manufatti cd classici furono incluse anche maschere di carattere animistico.
-HIMALAYAN ARCHAIC FIGURE: ETHNOFLORENCE AND INDIPENDENT POINT OF VIEW




Allora come oggi scarsamente recensite, le arti tradizionali della vasta area himalayana sono latrici di un variegato , ricchissimo e originale repertorio iconografico, frutto della sincretica fusione di stilemi classici e popolari.
Ogni oggetto sembra essere in tal senso latore di una memoria ancestrale che di volta in volta memorizza, interpreta e rielabora dettagli stilistici dal carattere spesso antinomico, così da risultare, anche all'osservatore più attento, autentici 'rebus' figurativi, nei quali la presenza di simbologie archetipicihe universali non è infrequente.
Queste considerazioni non sono però del tutto valide per la statuaria arcaico-animistica dell'Ovest Nepal.
Queste sculture costituiscono la vitale , universale e cristallizzata archetipica testimonianza di culti e credenze popolari che affondano le proprie radici in un remoto passato ormai da noi dimenticato ma certamente, un tempo, comune al sentire di tutti gli uomini.
Sono antecedenti alla differenziazione ed evoluzione degli stili 'locali', sono opposte alla cd arte tribale, qualcosa che attiene ad una specifica e locale geolocalizzazione temporale di stili ed iconografie.
Impermeabili alle influenze 'stilistiche' delle religioni major della regione, queste figure riassumono in sè un ricco ed unico repertorio di credenze sempre più prossimo al collasso.
Uno scientifico e sistematico field work è oggi disperatamente urgente.
Nell'attesa Ethnoflorence ha intrapreso una mappatura dell'area ed uno studio iconografico-comparativo dei manufatti
-INDIAN AND HIMALAYAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK,



Coming soon
-VOYAGE IN MONGOLIA IS A 2003 EXHIBITION AT MUSEE INTERNATIONAL DU CARNAVAL ET DU MASQUE of BINCHE,
devoted to the Art of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Népal, Bouthan, Tibet, Mongolie, with items from the Musée International du Carnaval et du Masque (M.I.C.M.), and the Etnografisch Museum of Antwerpen. Nepalese pieces from the Collection of Eric Chazot (Paris).


About the Exhibition catalogue:
- PREFACE by Michel Revelard
-L'ART DU MASQUE EN HIMALAYA by Eric Chazot and Michel Revelard
-CHAMANISME ET BOUDDHISME by Jan van Alphen
-LES MASQUES DU NEPAL: LE VISAGE DES DIEUX by Eric Chazot
-LES RITUELS BOUDDHIST
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-THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK
THE ANCIENT ARCHETIPYC ICONOGRAPHY OF THE RITUAL WEAPONS AND ANTHROPOMORPHIC FIGURES FROM UTTAR PRADESH.

hese anthropomorphic figures, harpoons, ax blades (celts) and anntennae swords were cast and hammered from unalloyed copper.
They may be dated 1500 to 1000 bc.
Given that pure copper is a relatively soft metal and most of the objects ahow little or no signs of wear, it seems likely that their function was largely dedicatory.
Hoards of such objects have been found across north India, the greatest concentration being in Uttar Pradesh.
The findspots suggest they were ritually deposited in rivers or marshes, though several related antennae swords were recovered in late Indus Valley civilization (ca. 1500 b.c.) burials at Sanauli.
-GHURRAS FROM ETHNOFLORENCE HIMALAYAN PHOTO ARCHIVE




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-MASQUES & ARTS TRIBAUX HIMALAYENS, 2007 Exhibition of the Galerie le Toit du Monde in Paris at Salon du Vieux Colombier
Galerie Le Toit Du Monde 6, rue Visconti - 75006 Paris Tél/Fax : 01 43 54 27 05 / contact@letoitdumonde.net
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TWO HIMALAYAN ARCHAIC REALIQUARY FIGURE FROM ETHNOFLORENCE ARCHIVE



















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-HIMALAYAN ANCIENT WOODEN RITUAL HIGH RELIEF CARVED ITEMS







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26.04.2010
-KHENIS, GHOST EATERS FIGURE IN KAGBENI VILLAGE, NEPAL. MASQUES & ARTS TRIBAUX HIMALAYENS, PARIS. NEPAL ANIMAL MASK. WESTERN NEPAL PRIMITIVE NAMASTE POSTURE FIGURE. HIMALAYAN MASK HIMALAYAN TRIBAL ART
-KHENIS, GHOST EATERS FIGURE IN KAGBENI VILLAGE, NEPAL.
Kagbeni is a fortified two gates medioeval village located in a strategic place at the cofluence of two river valleys, situated in a fertile area.
During the 19th century the human guards of the gates become superfluous and were replaced with two human figure moulded from clay each named KHENIS or Ghost Eaters, primitive iconographic subjects probably remanants of the ancient BON religion.
Photo credit www.trekearth.com/gallery/photo481538.htm


Photo credit www.trekearth.com/gallery/photo481538.htm
Photo credit for the pictures below www.travelpod.com
and
http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/inoursuitcas...









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and
http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/inoursuitcas...
-WESTERN NEPAL, THE ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC LIVING TRADITION I
Photo courtesy of Jean Claud Latombe



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-WESTERN NEPAL, THE ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC LIVING TRADITION PART II
Photo courtesy of Reto Niederhauser

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-WESTERN NEPAL, THE ARCHETYPIC ICONOGRAPHY OF AN ARTISTIC LIVING TRADITION III
Photo courtesy of Paulo Grobel

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- THE PHUR-PA, TIBETAN RITUAL DAGGERS JOHN C. HUNTINGTON Artibus Asiae - Publishers 6612 Ascona - Switzerland 1975

-MASQUES & ARTS TRIBAUX HIMALAYENS, 2007 Exhibition of the Galerie le Toit du Monde in Paris at Salon du Vieux Colombier
Galerie Le Toit Du Monde 6, rue Visconti - 75006 Paris Tél/Fax : 01 43 54 27 05 / contact@letoitdumonde.net
http://www.letoitdumonde.net/
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- RICHARD LAIR COLLECTION, A SENSITIVE SELECTION courtesy of Richard Lair.
-Nepalese shaman pictures courtesy of Josh Lustig http://www.joshlustig.com/; Vincent Van den Berg http://web.mac.com/vincentvandenberg/shi/Index.html , Manishakya http://www.flickr.com/photos/manishakya/ Arts Premiers Collection Bruxelles http://sanza.skynetblogs.be/ , undated nepalese post card.



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-Phurbu from Ethnoflorence Himalayan photo Archive










Coming soon
- RURAL ART of the WESTERN HIMALAYA KC ARYAN SUBASHINI ARYAN



Interesting the iconography of this Himachal Pradesh mask (Museum of Folk and Tribal Art Gurgaon New Dheli www.museumoffolkandtribalart.in ), collected by Mr KC Aryan for his Museum, and directly comparable with an item present in the Ethnoflorence Himalayan photo archive.
- HIMALAYAN ANIMAL MASK FROM ETHNOFLORENCE HIMALAYAN PHOTO ARCHIVE












Ethnoflorence Himalayan photo archive.
-Invitation card of the exhibition “Photo Document: Nineteen Seventies” by Kanak Mani Dixit at Siddhartha Art Gallery, Baber Mahal Revisited, Baber Mahal, Kathmandu , Nepal www.siddharthaartgallery.com

Photo Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka http://nepalphotography.wordpress.com/2007/12/28/photogra...
- WALKING ON THE ROAD OF WESTERN NEPAL III
Photo Credit Michael N. Leach
www.indianepalphotos.com
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Photo Credit Michael N. Leach
www.indianepalphotos.com
-WESTERN NEPAL PRIMITIVE FIGURE FROM ETHNOFLORENCE HIMALAYAN PHOTO ARCHIVE







Ethnoflorence Himalayan photo Archive.
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