Specifications

• Height: 136 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: squatting
• Gender: female
• Indigenous name:

Provenance

Collected in the field by Ben Tursch before 1973; Gallery Anuschka (Menist) Amsterdam; Museo delle Culture di Lugano (Sw)

Publications

Booklet Gallery Anuschka ‘dayak and batak art 11 may 1973’

Gianazzi, Claudio and Christian Giordano (ed.) (1989), Culture Extraeuropee. Collezione Serge e Graziella Brignoni, 302 ill. 445

Maiullari, Paolo & Junita Arneld (ed.) ( 2008), Patong. La grande scultura dei populi del Borneo dalle Collezioni del Museo delle Culture di Lugano, 46-47 ill. 20

Additional information

The text in the last book mentioned above reads that these sculptures could be encountered in the communities of the Bahau-Modang en in de Barito area, especially in the Luangan, Benuaq and Bentian.