Three protective figures "adu horo" ·  Indonésie - 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.