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TWO INDONESIAN TORAJA 'TAU TAU' CARVED 'NANGKA' FRUITWOOD MALE ANCESTOR FIGURES SOUTH SULAWESI, FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY The eyes inlaid with bone, the articulated lower arms lostA: 137cm high, 142cm high including baseB: 70cm high, 75cm high including base Provenance:Collected by an English diplomatic family in a village in South Sulawesi during the early 1950s Ex Finch and Co catalogue number 20, 2013, item number 21 Ex Private English collection For similar please see a similar figure in the Fred & Rita Richman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (1988.143.91) See also the BBC documentary film 'Way of the Ancestors' 1976, note the later 20th Century images always have detachable sexual parts
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