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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Marc & Elena Pinto Collection
• Sale Date:
  20 May 2015 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  135
• Lot Description:
  A Baby Carrier
  Mahakam River, Indonesia (nineteenth century)
  trade beads, seed beads, bronze, nassa shells, woven fibres and wood
  37 cm high
• Provenance:
  The Marc and Elena Pinto Collection, Perth
• References:
  For a related examples see: Bernard Sellato, The Plaited Arts from the Borneo Rainforest, p. 268 - 269, fig 22 and 27.
• Notes:
  A rattan woven basket back supported with uprights and adorned with beaded panel that features the Aso underworld dragon/dog figures along the top rows of trade beads, hanging off it in sections, bronze bells with seed beads and nassa shells, on the bottom a row of buttons to finish. This baby carrier is from the Mahakam River and probably from the Long-Gelat or Busang Tribe and dates to the nineteenth century.
• Estimate:
  A$6,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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