A NIAS MALE FIGURE, hazi nuwu, the flared headdress with three curved projections, scorched coiffure and moustache, carved necklace about the neck and earring in one ear, truncated arms, on tapered rectangular base, cracks, wood stand, probably Batu Islands

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A NIAS MALE FIGURE, hazi nuwu, the flared headdress with three curved projections, scorched coiffure and moustache, carved necklace about the neck and earring in one ear, truncated arms, on tapered rectangular base, cracks, wood stand, probably Batu Islands
32cm. high
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Steven G Alpert

Lot Essay

Cf. Feldman et al., 1990, p.221, fig.62 for a similar figure from Pulau Tello, Batu Islands

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