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001369 Sumatra, Batak, staff

001369 Sumatra, Batak, staff

Specifications Height: 169,5 cm Material: wood Position:  Gender: male Indigenous name: tunggal malehat Price realised: € 7.500,-   Provenance Musée Barbier Müller, Geneva, inv. nr. BMG 3102/B; Stéphane Mangin, Paris; Pierre Bergé, Paris 5-6-2007, lot 589;...

001367 Sulawesi, Toraja, effigy of an ancestor

001367 Sulawesi, Toraja, effigy of an ancestor

Specifications Height:171 cm Material: wood, bone Position: standing Gender: male Indigenous name: tau-tau Price realised: € 118.750,- Provenance Guy Piazzini, Paris; Jean-Jacqyes Dutko, Paris; Michel Perinet,Paris 1997; Alain de Monbrison, Paris;  Private collection,...

001355 Sumatra, Toba Batak, stopper

001355 Sumatra, Toba Batak, stopper

Specifications Height: 17 cm Material: wood, cotton Position: kneeling Gender: male Indigenous name: Provenance Private collection, Den Bosch Publications Rossel, Siebe & Arnold Wentholt (eds.)(2008), Tribal Treasures in Dutch Private Collections, 125. Additional...

001358 Sumatra, Batak, magic or medicine horn

001358 Sumatra, Batak, magic or medicine horn

Specifications Height: 52 cm Material: water buffalo horn, wood, plant fibre Position:  Gender:  Indigenous name: naga morsarang Provenance Private collection, The Hague Publications Rossel, Siebe & Arnold Wentholt (eds.)(2008), Tribal Treasures in Dutch Private...

001360 Borneo, Sarawak or Kalimantan, shaman’s box

001360 Borneo, Sarawak or Kalimantan, shaman’s box

Specifications Height: 26,7 cm Material: wood, bark, rattan Position: Gender: Indigenous name: lupong manang   Provenance Vicky Shiba, Mill Valley Oct 2020 Publications Ref.: Heppell, Michael e.a. (2005), Iban Art. Sexual selection and severed heads, 155, figs....

001363 Sumatra, Lampung, comb

001363 Sumatra, Lampung, comb

Specifications Height: 16 x 13 cm Material: horn, metal, pigments Position:  Gender:  Indigenous name:   Provenance Thomas Murray, Mill Valley, Oct 2020   Publications   Additional information Two symbols seem to meet in this comb: the tree and the...

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