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001727 Moluccas, Leti, ancestor post

001727 Moluccas, Leti, ancestor post

Specifications Height: 115 cm. Material: wood, shell? Position: crouching Gender: male Indigenous name: Price realised: € 22.680,- Provenance H.J.A. Raedt van Oldenbarnevelt (1860-1936), acquired between 1910 and 1915; on loan to the Colonial Institute (Present...

000479 Borneo, East Kalimantan, Dayak figure

000479 Borneo, East Kalimantan, Dayak figure

Specifications Height:190 cm. Material: wood Position: standing Gender: female (?) Indigenous name: Price realised: Provenance Ben Tursch, before 1973; Anuschka Menist, Amsterdam 1973; Bram Schriek (?); Helen Kuhn (1920-2006); Ben Brillo (1928-2020); Eugène Dodeigne...

001726 Sumatra, Batak, shield

Specifications Diameter: 45 cm. Material: wood, copper, pigments Position: Gender: Indigenous name: Price realised: Provenance Loed van Bussel pre 1959, The Hague; whereabouts unknown. Publications   Exhibitions   Additional information There are not many...

001725 Borneo, East Kalimantan, Dayak, Bahau, spirit figure

001725 Borneo, East Kalimantan, Dayak, Bahau, spirit figure

Specifications Height: 98 cm. Material: wood Position: standing Gender: Indigenous name: patong Price realised: € 1.962.000,- Provenance Collected by Robert Vanderstukken, Bali; Anthony Plowright, London ca. 1984-85; John K. Hewett (1919-1994), Bog Farm; Collection...

001724 Nias, North, ancestor figure

001724 Nias, North, ancestor figure

Specifications Height: 73,66 cm. Material: wood Position: seated Gender: male Indigenous name: siraha salawa Price realised: Provenance Thomas Jaffe, promised gift to the Yale University Art Gallery, inv. nr. ILE2010.8.52. Publications Exhibitions   Additional...

001723 Nias, North, ancestor figure

001723 Nias, North, ancestor figure

Specifications Height:  75 cm. Material: wood Position: seated Gender: male Indigenous name: siraha salawa Price realised: Provenance Private collection USA. Publications Feldman, Jerome (ed.) (1985), The Eloquent Dead, p. 49, ill. 16. Exhibitions Los Angeles, UCLA...

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