Specifications
- Height: 70 cm
- Material: stone
- Position:
- Gender:
- Indigenous name: osa osa
- Price realised: € 6.200,-
Provenance
Lempertz, Brussels 29-1-2020, lot 210.
Publications
Ref.: Sibeth, Achim & Bruce Carpenter (2013), Nias Sculpture, pp. 66-75.
Exhibitions
Additional information
The mystical seat upon which village elders would be enthroned during a complex cycle of religious ceremonies. They are either ound or rectangular in shape. Prominent is the mythological lasara-head, a local variation on the underworld dragon.