Specifications

• Height: 39 cm
• Material: wood, shell, animal teeth, bone, plant fibre
• Position: 
• Gender: 
• Indigenous name: hawat, avaat, ba’
• Price realised: € 74.400,-

Provenance

Jean-Luc & Jacky André, Paris; Sotheby’s Paris, 7-12-2005, lot 40; Ana and Antonio Casanovas, Madrid; Private collection

Publications

Stöhr, W. (1981), Art des indonésiens archaïques, Musée Rath, Geneva, p. 105; Grunne, Bernard de (2015), Dayak 2 from Borneo, pp. 78, 81, 87.

Additional information

Of this type, with three horizontal heads in line, 14 are known in public and private collections (De Grunne 2015, 87).

The heads are not ‘monster’ heads as suggested by De Grunne, but spirit figures above stylised aso heads, also with disc-shaped shell inserted eyes. 

Photo credits

Sotheby’s, Paris