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000688 Sumatra, Batak, Toba, medicine container

000688 Sumatra, Batak, Toba, medicine container

SpecificationsHeight: 15,5 cmMaterial: wood, porcelainPosition: squattingGender: maleIndigenous name: guri guri or perminakanProvenanceKunsthandel Klefisch, Cologne 93d Auction, lot 723.Publications Additional informationAn unusual wooden portrait of an...

000711 Sumatra, Batak, knife hilt

000711 Sumatra, Batak, knife hilt

SpecificationsHeight: 10 cmMaterial: brassPosition: squattingGender: maleIndigenous name:ProvenanceBruce Frank Primitive Art, New YorkPublicationsAdditional informationProbably the work of an atelier active ca 1900. Especially knives are adorned with...

000708 Sumatra, Batak, powder horn

000708 Sumatra, Batak, powder horn

SpecificationsLength: 15,25 cmMaterial: horn, wood, brassPosition: Gender: Indigenous name: parpanggahalanProvenanceIrwin Hersey, New York; Bruce Frank Primitive Art, New YorkPublicationsAdditional informationPhoto creditsBruce Frank, New York...

000895 Sumatra, Batak, Karo, staff finial

000895 Sumatra, Batak, Karo, staff finial

SpecificationsHeight: 37 cmMaterial: wood, feathers, plant fibrePosition: equestrianGender: maleIndigenous name:Price realised: € 21.080,-ProvenanceEd. Smid, The Hague; Lempertz, Brussels 31-1-2018, lot 81; Thomas Murray, Mill ValleyPublicationsAdditional...

001179 Papua Barat, Mappi-Digul, shield

001179 Papua Barat, Mappi-Digul, shield

SpecificationsHeight:  cmMaterial: wood, pigmentPosition: Gender: Indigenous name:ProvenancePublicationsAdditional informationLeaf-shaped Awyu or Jaqay.

000791, Sulawesi, Makassar, figure

000791, Sulawesi, Makassar, figure

SpecificationsHeight:  cmMaterial: terracottaPosition: seated, one leg raisedGender: femaleProvenanceKitty Ament (1882-1967); Jonathan Hope 2016PublicationsKitty Ament (1917), 'Nederlandsche verzamelingen van Indische ethnographica', in Nederlandsch Indië...

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