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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Aboriginal | Oceanic Art | The Gallagher Collection
• Sale Date:
  02 Jun 2019 ~ 3pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  9344
• Lot Description:
  An Old Mangle for Crushing Seeds of Ripe Cotton Pods, Timor, Indonesia
  carved decorative patterns, 16 anthropomorphic figures, a primitive cotton gin, perhaps paralleled the distribution of the backstrap loom in S.E.Asia before introduction of machine spun cotton, figures may relate to ancestors of a master carver.
  40 x 37 cm
• Provenance:
  The Hugh Gallagher Collection
• References:
  See Maxwell, R.Textiles of S.E. Asia pp157 for a Laotian example, called beninis by people of Oenlassi west Timor.
• Estimate:
  A$400 - 600
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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