Specifications

• Height: 49 cm
• Material: wood, cotton, plant fibre
• Position: standing
• Gender: (fe)male
• Indigenous name: pangulubalang
• Price realised: € 6.500,- hp

Provenance

Private collection, The Hague; Veilinghuis De Zwaan, Amsterdam 17-11-2020, lot 3330.

Publications

Ref: Sibeth, Achim (2000), Batak. Kunst aus Sumatra, 87, ill. 118 for an almost similar example in Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt am Main.

Additional information

Separately carved arms joined by means of wooden pegs. Pendulous flat breasts indicating a female?

Photo credits

De Zwaan, Amsterdam