Specifications

• Height:  cm
• Mat3erial: wood
• Position: composition, seated
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: karuhei

Provenance

Erik Farrow, San Rafael, Cal., Parcours des Mondes 2017

Publications

Ref. Hopes, Michael (1997), Ilmu, magic and divination amongst the Benuaq and Tunjung Dayak, 106- 108

Additional information

Notice the headdress and the jacket, bayu. Hopes illustrates a Benuaq shaman’s necklace with one of the amulets in an equal composition of two figures, being a mother and child, a protectice amulet against certain diseases. See also Corbey (2018) Jurookng, 74-75.