Ancestor Figure (Ana Deo) | Yale University Art Gallery

19th century

Before the Ngada converted to Catholicism in the early twentieth century, their villages had temple structures that housed carved wooden ancestral figures, called ana deo. Today, one still sees smaller ancestor shrines in village centers.

Medium: Wood
Dimensions: 24 13/16 × 11 13/16 × 8 1/4 in. (63 × 30 × 21 cm)
base: 7 1/2 × 8 7/8 × 3 15/16 in. (19 × 22.5 × 10 cm)
Credit Line: Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, B.A. 1971
Loan number: ILE2012.30.571
Geography: Made in Flores, Indonesia
Culture: Ngada
Classification: Sculpture
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Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

effigies, figures (representations)

Subject

ancestor worship ancestors

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