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000169 Sulawesi, Toraja, human head
Specifications Height: 55 cm Material: wood Position: Gender: Indigenous name: head of a tau-tau Price realised: € 6.000,- Provenance Sotheby's Paris, 30-9-2002, lot 78 Publications Additional information Exceptional large head; notice the ridge...
000342 Moluccas, Leti, ancestor figure
Specifications Height: 52 cm Material: wood Position: squatting Gender: male Indigenous name: Price realised: Dfl. 140.000,- hp Provenance Leendert van Lier, Blaricum, Christies Amsterdam 15-4-1997, lot 108 Publications Additional information Notice...
000002 Papua, Teluk Cenderawasih, parry shield
Specifications Height: 107,5 cm Material: wood, pigments, cassuary feathers Position: Gender: Indigenous name: Price realised: € 19.000,- hp Provenance Jan van Riel (1907-1988), Tilburg; Veilinghuis De Zwaan Amsterdam, 13-11-2015, lot 3204 Publications...
000990 Sumatra, South Nias, ancestor figure
Specifications Height: 52,5 cm. Material: wood Position: seated Gender: male Indigenous name: adu zatua Provenance Guy van Rijn, Brussels; private collection, Antwerp, Belgium Publications Rossel, Siebe & Arnold Wentholt (2008), Tribal Treasures in...
000854 Moluccas, Southwest, golden dish
Specifications Dimensions: D. 32,5 cm Material: metal, gold Indigenous name: mas piring Provenance German private collection, Cologne, Veilinggebouw De Zwaan 7-11-17 lot 3214. Additional information The shape, fluted wall and the central medallion showing...
000876 Sumatra, Toba Batak, magic horn
Specifications Dimensions: l. 47 cm Material: horn, wood, hair, cotton Indigenous name: naga morsarang or zahan Provenance Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk, 1852 in situ; Tropenmuseum, Louis Lemaire, Amsterdam, Alain Bovis, Paris, private collection, Binoche...
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