Specifications
- Height: 17 and 21 cm.
- Material: wood, cotton
- Position: standing
- Gender: male and female
- Indigenous name: itara
- Price realised: € 1.700,- hp
Provenance
Galerie Lemaire, Amsterdam 1982; Aldo & hannie van Eyck, Loenen aan de Vecht; De Zwaan, Amsterdam 11-12-2025, lot 726.
Publications
Exhibitions
Additional information
Exact function of these ancestor figures, carved as couples, is unknown. They were hung on a rack, ruma tara, in the house of a lineage chief.
Photo credits
De Zwaan, Amsterdam