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Explore image in Funerary Effigy (Tau Tau)
possibly 17th century
Wood
37 13/16 × 11 × 4 1/2 in. (96 × 28 × 11.5 cm)
base: 12 3/16 × 7 7/8 × 15 9/16 in. (31 × 20 × 39.5 cm)
base: 12 3/16 × 7 7/8 × 15 9/16 in. (31 × 20 × 39.5 cm)
Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, B.A. 1971
ILE2012.30.732
Geography:
Made in Rabung, near Rantepao, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Status:
On view
Culture:
Sa’dan Toraja
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Ex-collection: A. Plowright, Paris; M. Itzikowitz, Paris
Bibliography:
Jerome Feldman, The Eloquent Dead: Ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia and Southeast Asia (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 1985), 133, fig. 160, 160a.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
