Magic figure

Indonesia - Sumatra, Toba-Batak

sold EUR 700

Provenance

American Private Collection

Size

H: 37 cm

H: 14.6 inch

Description

wood, cracks

The present armless and legless sculpture may be a “figure of defensive character”, as they were hung upside down in rows in the gable of the house.

Sibeth, Achim & Bruce W. Carpenter, Batak Sculpture, Singapore 2007, p. 137, ill. 167 right

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