Parts of protective image ·  Indonésie - Nias · ID: 3040774

Description

wood, brown patina, remains of rattan, two staff figures with stylized anthropomorphic faces, one of them with fork-shaped ending/legs (possibly cut), slightly dam., cracks;
presumably once part of a protective image called “adu fangola”, which was sacrificed during pregnancy and child-birth. In that case a horizontal crossbar would have been fixed between the forked legs with a number of wooden sticks “adu bihara” attached by rattan.

L’objet Parts of protective image avec l’ID d’objet 3040774 a fait partie de la vente aux enchères 83rd Tribal Art Auction dans 28 mai 2016. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 19 a atteint un prix de vente de 330 € pour un prix d’adjudication de 200 €.

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Littérature comparée

Nias, Tribal Treasures, Cosmic reflections in stone, wood and gold, Delft 1990, p. 250, ill. 118