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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Timed Online Auction | The Singapore Collection | Oceanic & Aboriginal | Including Other Vendors
• Sale Date:
  31 Jan 2022 ~ 6pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  9004
• Lot Description:
  A Pair of Ancestral Figures, South Maluku, Indonesia
  The head ornament carved on the statues indicates these figures are from Southeast Maluku. Items with this horn motif are known from Maluku Tenggara (the region between Babar and Timur) and also Tanimbar. This horn motif represents a killed animal, an important symbol of victory and status. Not only used in jewellery but also placed in certain houses to express the honour and glory of its inhabitants. We believe that these statues are ornaments from an important house/building.
  100 x 12 x 12 cm (each)
• Provenance:
  Private Collection of a Singapore Gentleman; Purchased in 2013 from a Dutch collection in den Haag.
• Notes:
  They were bought in Timor by a well known Dutch collector, Mr. Frits Liefkes, in 1979. Objects from this collection were sold prior to the death of Mr. Liefkes in 2010 after which the rest of the collection was gifted to The National Museum of Ethnology/Rijksmuseum Volkenkund in Leiden.
• Estimate:
  A$800 - 1,200
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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