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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Aboriginal | Oceanic Art | The Gallagher Collection
• Sale Date:
  02 Jun 2019 ~ 3pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  9403
• Lot Description:
  A Bronze Dancer, Indonesia
  dancer seems to be in triumphal flight, the shape of head ornament suggests it was an attachment, possibly a pectoral, similar figures in Djakarta Museum, excavated in Sumatra from a pre-Hindu culture. ­Bankinang
  H 15 cm
• Provenance:
  The Hugh Gallagher Collection
• References:
  Cf. Van Heekeren, H.R. The Bronze-Iron Age of Indonesia,1958 pp36-37, plate 9, 'in my opinion the finds at Bankinang are one of the most important discoveries of the Bronze-Iron Age ever made.'
• Estimate:
  A$1,000 - 1,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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