Funerary Effigy (Tau Tau) | Yale University Art Gallery

possibly 17th century

On view, 3rd floor, Indo-Pacific Art

Medium: Wood
Dimensions: 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)
Credit Line: Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, B.A. 1971
Loan number: ILE2012.30.732
Geography: Made in Rabung, near Rantepao, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Culture: Sa'dan Toraja
Classification: Sculpture
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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.

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

effigies, figures (representations), funerary art, human figures (visual works)

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