Specifications

• Height: 75 cm
• Material: wood, bone
• Position: standing
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: tau-tau
• Price realised: € 6.820,-

Provenance

Lempertz, Brussels 24-10-2018, lot 99

Publications

Ref.: Eric Crystal (1994), ‘Rape of the Ancestors: Discovery, Display, and Destruction of the Ancestral Statuary of Tana Toraja’ in Taylor (ed.) Fragile Traditions, 29-42

Additional information

Being part of a living tradition, these tau-tau figures were never freely abandoned or sold to western customers. The presence of these sculptures in western collections is therefore disputed.

Photo credits

Lempertz, Brussels