Specifications

• Length: 10; H 4,5 cm
• Material: metal: gold
• Position: 
• Gender: 
• Indigenous name: mase

Provenance

Insulinde Indonesian Arts – Frank Wiggers

Publications

Retrieved from San Francisco Tribal website, Archive January 2020

Additional information

Heavy in gold content, this small pendant served the nobility of Southeast Moluccas. Notice the scrolling pattern which are omnipresent on Tanimbar and which was adopted in the Cenderawasih Bay of Papua.

Photo credits

Courtesy Frank Wiggers