Specifications

• Height: 78 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: standing
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name:
• Price realised: NC

Provenance

Jean Jacques Porchez, Paris; Aguttes Paris, 17-4-2009, lot 53; Zemanek Würzburg, 26-11-2011

Publications

Ref.: Sibeth, Achim & Bruce W. Carpenter (2007), Batak Sculpture, 159 ill. 21-22.

Additional information

‘Alarm figures functioned literally as sounding boards which would be struck with a beater to alert the village in the event of intrusion or disaster. Both of these examples have large wooden plugs to seal in deposits of pupuk. The pupuk is inserted into areas considered to be the centres of the tondi soul…’ (Sibeth/Carpenter 2007, 159)

Photo credits

Zemanek Würzburg