Specifications

• Height: 40 cm
• Material: wood, shell, glass bead, rattan, iron
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: ba/ 
• Price realised: ($ 30/50.000,- NC)

Provenance

Emile Deletaille, Brussels; Gustave and Franyo Schindler (1910-1988; 1909-), Cannes; Sotheby’s New York 11-11-2004, lot 6.

Publications

Grunne, Bernard de (2015), Dayak from Borneo, p. 77, pl. 18

Additional information

East Kalimantan, Bahau or Modang Dayak. Catalogue entry reads ‘aso’ heads, but in this case they are anthropomorphic benevolent spirit figures; below are the low-relief carving of the body, ingeniously intersected. 

Photo credits

Sotheby’s, New York