Specifications

• Height: 74 x 146,5 cm.
• Material: cotton, glaqss beads, shell
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: lawo butu
• Price realised: € 40.320,-

Provenance

Sam Josefowitz (1922-2015), Lausanne before 1981; on long term loan to the Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis; Sotheby’s, Paris 9-4-2021, lot 16.

Publications

Adams, Monni (1981), Threads of Life. A Private Collection of Textiles from Indonesia and Sarawak, fig. 3.

Exhibitions

The Katonah Gallery, Westchester, Threads of Life 7 June – 26 July 1981, no. 24

Additional information

In december 2019 these cermonial textiles were nowhere to be found anymore in the Ngadha area for at least twenty five years.

Photo credits

Sotheby’s, Paris