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LOT 2369

Indonesian Tau Tau Funerary Wooden Head

TORAJA PEOPLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY A.D.

13 3/4 in. (780 grams, 35 cm).

Funerary peg head with bald scalp, delicate facial features with grooves delineating the piercing eyes and shallow lips; below the neck a cylindrical protrusion to be slotted into the carving of its body, commemorating a deceased person. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From South Central Sulewesi, Indonesia.
Ex private Surrey, UK, ethnographic collection.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.

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LOT 2369

Indonesian Tau Tau Funerary Wooden Head

Sold for (Inc. bp): £33

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