Ancestor figure "hazi nuwu"

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Description

wood, blackish brown patina, staff-like armless figure with disc-shaped headgear, a bamboo tube fastened to the body, slightly dam., rudiment of right arm missing, slightly dam. (headgear), abrasion of paint;
originally belonging to an ancestral altar. The bamboo tubes were filled with tiny palmwood sticks “famaso”, which served as a place for the spirit of the dead to enter the image.

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Comparing literature

Nias, Tribal Treasures, Cosmic reflections in stone, wood and gold, Delft 1990, p. 221, ill. 63 b

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