Door panel with lizard motif "ilik" · Indonesia - Sumatra, Toba - Batak · ID: 3049077
sold
EUR 800
Provenance
South German Private CollectionSize
M: 98 cm x 62 cm
M: 38.6 inch x 24.4 inch
Description
wood,
Door from the facade of a Toba “sopo”. The upper section of this type of building served as a granary for the family rice.
The lizard motif “ilik” was destined to bring the harvest under the benevolent protection of the deity “Boraspati ni Tano”.
Comparing literature
Barbier, Jean Paul & Douglas Newton (ed.), Islands and Ancestors, Munich 1988, p. 220, Plate 14