Specifications

• Height: 8,9 cm
• Material: deer antler, water buffalo horn
• Position: 
• Gender: 
• Indigenous name: kotom (?)

Provenance

Private collection, New York since 1990s; Bruce Frank Primitive Art, New York.

Publications

Bruce Frank, East of Borneo, catalogue Parcours des Mondes, paris 2019, nr. 21.

Additional information

The catalogue entry reads awl handle, but a small rectangular recession makes plausible that it was used as an implement for rice cutting.

Photo credits

Oren Eckhaus, New York