Lot 16

The male figure with a detached and repaired left arm. The female figure with an age crack to the right inner leg and old loss to part of the left thumb. Both figures with a small amount of old insect damage, various chips, small losses and old wear.


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Floy Quintos Collection, Manila, Phillipines.
Hiro Kobayashi Collection, Kyoto, Japan, 1990s.
Private Collection, Melbourne.

Floy Quintos is a Manilan film director, playright and collector and curator of Filipino historical traditional arts.
Hiro Kobayashi was a ethnographic photographer well known for his expeditions to northern Luzon in the 1980s and 1990s where he documented tribal life and avidly collected important Ifugao art objects.