tribal art
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Sigale gale head ,batak,Sumatra
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Vintage Arts:
Regional Art:
Asian:
Southeast Asian:
Pre 1940 item# 1192559
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galerie Cecile Kerner
32475830042
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Sigale Gale
Sumatra, Batak people.
Wood, sculpture in round,26cm
articulated eyebrows and tongue (with fiber cord in the neck
a very strong expression
A unique tradition within Batak sculpture are the puppets known as Sigale-gale.
In former times , Sigale-gale appeared at funerals where they served as stand-ins for the sons of men who had no male children to perform their mortuary rites.
from a french collector living in Bali since years
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an extremely rare baguirmi doll
Catalogue:
Vintage Arts:
Regional Art:
African:
Pre 1930 item# 1194046
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galerie Cecile Kerner
32475830042
P.O.R.
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an extremely rare ,impressive bagirmi fertility doll. Her big dimension (54cm),makes think Harter in tribal art winter 1994,p 69, about another similar one that"other highly unusual statuettes are of larger size,with a darker patina and a polish of use that indicates frequent handling,especially at the base of the object where it is most easily grasped.perhaps these objects were used by those presiding over rites of fertility Tey are in any event ,too large to be constantly carried by young ...click for details
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