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Loan Object
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.
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