Specifications

• Height: 128 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position: standing
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name:
• Price realised:

Provenance

Baudoin de Grunne, Wezembeek Oppem

Publications

Stöhr, W. a.o. (1981), Art des Indonésiens archaïques, p. 57, fig 18.

Exhibitions

Museum Rath, Geneva 1981/ Dallas Museum of Fine Art 1982

Additional information

Unusual large and hands held in veneration, the purpose of this statue is not immediately clear. Because it lacks power substance it is neither a pangulubalang or pagar, but it seems to fit in the debata hidup sphere of tutelary spirits.

For a similar figure of the same size see Maxwell, Robyn (2010), Life, death & magic, p. 158 left. The hands are in an Indian derived position and in front of the genitalia, described as a pangulubalang or pagar figure.

Photo credits

R. Asselberghs, Brussels