Specifications
- Height: cm
- Material: wood
- Position: sqtanding
- Gender: male
- Indigenous name: hampatong
Provenance
Acquired in the field by Ben Tursch before 1973; Gallery Anuschka (Menist) Amsterdam 1973; American private collection.
Publications
Booklet Gallery Anuschka 1973 ‘dayak and batak art 11 may 1973’; Feldman, Jerome (ed.) (1985), The Eloquent Dead, Ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia and Southeast Asia, 118, fig. 132
Additional information
This commemorative hampatong hailes from the Ngaju or Ot Danum in Central Kalimantan. The man is clothed in a loincloth, holding an animal in his hands in front of him. Flat headdress with a bowl on top stacked with fruits and vegetables.