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001518 Papua, Northwest Asmat, Unir river, ancestor figure
Specifications Height: 105 cm. Material: wood, feather, cassoway peg, seeds Position: squatting Gender: male Indigenous name: kawe Price realised: Provenance Paul Wirz (1892-1955) collected between 1916 and 1925; Museum der Kulturen, Basel. Publications Vatter,...
001520 Borneo, Sarawak, Melanau, cure figure
Specifications Height: 35 cm. Material: wood Position:seated Gender:male Indigenous name: belum Price realised: Provenance Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne inv. nr. 23269. Publications Vatter, Ernst (1926), Plastik der Naturvölker, p. 167, fig. 98; Ref....
001516 Timor, pair of ancestor figures
Specifications Height: 110 and 124 cm. Material: wood Position: standing Gender: male, female Indigenous name: ai tos Price realised: Provenance Collector Hauck; Linden Museum Stuttgart 79149,8. Publications Vatter, Ernst (1926), Plastik der Naturvölker, p....
001512 Sumatra, Enggano, woman’s headdress
Specifications Height: 13 cm. Material: wood. tin Position: Gender: Indigenous name: epaku Price realised: Provenance Carl Benjamin Hermann Baron von Rosenberg (1817-1888); Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt; lost due to bombing in WW2. Publications Vatter,...
001521 Moluccas, Leti, wooden flag-head
Specifications Height: 35 cm. Material: wood Position: Gender: Indigenous name:kairenanu or Uplera haire Price realised: Provenance Rautenstrauch Joest Museum Publications Vatter, Ernst (1926), Religiöse Plastik der Naturvölker, p. 169, ill. 99; Ref.:...
000832 Borneo, East Kalimantan/Sarawak, Kayan Dayak, skull
Specifications Height: 19,5 cm Material: bone, resin, cowry Position: Gender: Indigenous name: Price realised: € 11.160,- Provenance Lempertz, Brussels 21-3-2018, lot 43. Publications Exhibitions Additional information 19th century Photo credits...
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