Product Description

Tanimbar Ancestor Figures

Material: Wood, beads
Style: Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia
Size: Height 27 cm, Width 6.5 cm, Depth 8 cm;  Height 25.5 cm, Width 6 cm, Depth 8.5 cm
Order Number: MHST3

The Tanimbar Islands are located in the South Moluccas and comprise over 60 islands which are 135 miles long and 70 miles wide.

In animist Southeast Asia the origin of human life is thanks to the ancestors, as are all skills, knowledge, materials, prosperity and fertility. It is vital to remember and honour them.

Ancestor figures are created as a focus to venerate the founding forbears.

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