Three protective figures "adu horo" ·  Indonesia - Nias · ID: 3040769

Description

wood, brown patina, a) standing figure with extremely elongated torso and short legs, hands in praying gesture, spherical head with slanting face halves and crowning projection, h: 39 cm; b) rudely carved figure with block-like leg zone, h: 34,5 cm; c) standing female figure with heart-shaped deepened face halves, projection with drilled hole on the head, h: 46,5 cm; each of the figures min. dam., cracks, min. traces of insect caused damage;
“adu horo” figures served to protect from, or to heal illness.

The object Three protective figures “adu horo” with the object ID 3040769 was last part of the auction 83rd Tribal Art Auction at May 28, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 15 achieved a sales price of EUR 800.

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