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Loan Object
Photo by Johan Vipper
Photo credit: Johan Vipper
Trap Charm (Tuntun)
19th century
Wood
75 × 2 × 3.8 cm (29 1/2 × 13/16 × 1 1/2 in.)
base: 14.5 × 10.4 × 10.4 cm (5 11/16 × 4 1/8 × 4 1/8 in.)
base: 14.5 × 10.4 × 10.4 cm (5 11/16 × 4 1/8 × 4 1/8 in.)
Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, B.A. 1971
ILE2012.30.662
Geography:
Made in Borneo, Malaysia
Culture:
Iban
Period:
19th century
Classification:
Tools and Equipment
Provenance:
Ex-collection: B. Frank, New York
Bibliography:
Jerome Feldman, The Eloquent Dead: Ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia and Southeast Asia (Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 1985), 122–23.
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.
