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Lot 172

A PAIR OF DAYAK WOODEN 'AGOM' GUARDIAN FIGURES
IBAN PEOPLE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Both simply carved, with no limbs, and dagger like tenons as the bases. With a fitted stand.
42cm & 35cm high respectively (excluding stand)

Estimate $600 - $800

Unsold

small age cracks and minor wear to wood from moisture damage.

LJ delivery size: Small


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Leonard Joel makes no guarantee of the originality of mechanical or applied components. Absence of reference to such modifications does not imply that a lot is free from modifications.


East & West Art: Fine Tribal and Ethnographical Art of South East Asia (exhibition), 7/8/2010.


Iban carved protective figures to guard their rice - carved as pointed stakes which are inserted into the ground after the rice has been planted

Decorative Arts and Asian Art, Including Tribal Artefacts

AUCTION
Sale: LJ8372
12:00pm - 20 October 2020
333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141

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CONTACT
Dominic Kavanagh
decorativearts@leonardjoel.com.au


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