Door with lizard motif "ilik" · Indonesia - Sumatra, Toba - Batak · ID: 3046704

Name: Door with lizard motif "ilik"
SKU: 3046704
Availability: Discontinued

not available anymore

Provenance

Alex Arthur, Brussels, Belgium (1995)

Size

M: 89,5 cm x 37 cm

M: 35.2 inch x 14.6 inch

Description

wood, insect caused damage

Door from the facade of a Toba “sopo”. The upper section of this type of building served as a granary for the family rice, while the lower part was used as the men’s meeting ground and as a dormitory for male bachelors.

The lizard motive “ilik” was supposed to cause that the deity “Boraspati ni Tano” granted the harvest in the attic its benevolent protection.
By 1980, old doors decorated with this motif had almost completely disappeared.

The object Door with lizard motif “ilik” with the object ID 3046704 was last part of the auction 94th Tribal Art Auction at March 7, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 114.

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