Zemanek-Münster

Two gong handles

Philippines - Luzon, Ifugao / Kankanaey
sold EUR 600
Provenance
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria

Description

a) handle with two squatting anthropomorphic figures (reminiscent of “bulul” rice deities), wood, h: 12 cm; b) handle with zoomorphic heads (reminiscent of “punamhan” vessels), bronze alloy, h: 3.5 cm


Comparing literature

Moltzau Anderson, Eric, Indigenous Art of the Northern Philippines, Leiden 2010, p. 188

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