Catalogue LS-160

Nias

Region
Nias, North Sumatra, Indonesia
Culture
Nias
Object type
Sculpture
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Materials

Wood

Size

Not recorded

Description

Ancestor figure, adu zatua. North Nias. 19th C. Ancestor figure of deceased tribe member attached to a row of ancestor figures which in hung on the right wall of the main room of the house. See similar figure in "The Elocuent Dead" pg 5, Fig.