Specifications

• Height: 52,5 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: squatting
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: tuntun
• Price realised: € 7728,-

Provenance

Jean-Claude Bellier; Binoche & Giquello, Paris, 22-6-2017 lot 13

Publications

Additional information

The tuntun made along the rivers Pantu, Saribas and Krian were the items which aroused the collector’s minds. (Heppell 1988; 66). Tuntun means ‘the right height’ and they came to man through a myth, in which the sirit helper Segenun told the Iban how to use the measuring stick and how to build traps for various prey animals (mostly boars and deer).