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Wonderful painted wood panel of a barefoot female farmer with long cultivating tool at the end of a demanding workday wearing a modest peasant dress with simple round earrings. Part of a 3 panel set of Female Farmer with a Hoe (T052C-BLE), Female Farmer with a Basket (T052B-BLE and Court Dancer (T052A-BLE).
Authentic vintage mask of a king (topeng dalem) carved in the Balinese community on Lombok Island. Honoring historical kings, it was also an offering to please the gods. It exhibits the king’s qualities: a refined, cultured, idealized, model leader. Mounted on museum quality stand.
This vintage Indonesian rice paddle/spoon was crafted from local wood by a Lombok craftsman and is a fine example of the cultural art of the Sasak people who number three million and comprise about 80% of its population. As animism farmers for two millennia, they lived in houses surrounding religious compounds where they held religious…
Made by the Naga, a collection of tribal groups in India with a past headhunting tradition, conch shell ear covers are worn by warriors. This has a stippled image of a buffalo’s neck and head inside V-shaped horns, a symbol of wealth, prosperity. On Lucite base, they are unique cultural art.
Given its size this smaller early 20th century Hsun-ok with simple sophisticated designs of with parallel rows of intricate triangular and beaded borders may been placed as decorative piece on a home altar.
Made from wool and natural dyes this small vibrant vintage carpet square can be used for meditation, an accent piece or hung on a wall. The center has 4 stylized bats, the ultimate symbol of good luck, blessings, happiness and riches.
Used in ritual Cham Dances, this whimsical and colorful mask emphasizes the horses playful character, alertness and strength with large eyes, painted lashes, wide raised lids, flaring nostrils, open mouth and pointed ears framed by beautifully carved rows of black hair.
Deeply set cut-out eyes and mouths are traditional for West Timor ancestor masks as are few, none or menacing teeth. They are rare and often have hair on animal hides on the upper lip, brows and head. Often looking threatening with stark features, their black color, teeth and often lack of balance scare off malevolent and evil spirits. Storing them in the rafters above the house hearth accounts for their smokey black color. Timor Ancestor masks have an earthy expressive presence and a raw spirit.
Timor’s religion has been described by Barbier as ritual exchanges between persons and social groups with their ancestors and fertility spirits. Timorese believe they can be upset by wicked forces, sickness, infertility and other forces, but particularly by the failure of the living to make suitable sacrifices to ancestral spirits. The departed protect and bring prosperity to the living as long as they are honored properly, so there is a close reciprocal link between the deceased and the secular world. Ancestors mediate between the living and the unseen world for living relatives. Their masks are used in animist veneration rituals, protective ceremonies and ritual dances or ceremonies tied to fertility, harvest, or funerary rites Besides masks, the living s are obliged to carve ancestor effigies to honor departed souls for them to occupy and rest in during their village visits. Many ceremonies usually occur in a house room known as “the womb” where a pillar supports beams rising up to the roof struts. This functions symbolically as an axis mundi (the center of the world or cosmic axis) that connects heaven and supports a simple altar above the floor to hold religious artifacts, protective fetishes and charms to ward off evil. So masks, effigies and fetish objects are protective and magic objects used throughout Indonesian islands in. Timor masks were rarely seen in the west until the mid-1970s.
Vintage bivalve mold figures like this cow were hand luted and hand painted, in the likeness of Hindu religious figures, soldiers, animals are used in rural India where they are seen as wishes for a better life.
Vintage Indian terracotta policeman bivalve mould made, hand luted and painted in rural India terracotta considered spiritual and auspicious as it incorporates five natural elements of air, fire, earth, water and metal.
Earthenware terracotta pottery has played a significant role in the cultural, religious and artistic traditions of India for centuries. Indian terracotta images are considered spiritual, mystical and auspicious as Hindus believe terracotta incorporates the five natural elements of air, fire, earth, water and metal. Made with a bivalve mould that is hand luted and hand…
This “crown” called a “house of the head” was made to show gratitude for the power of heads that reflect Yoruba ideas of individuality and authority. Crowns like this were placed on altars for prayer and divination and were a symbol of a Yoruba deity. This headdress was in the San Francisco International Airport, “Crowning Achievements” exhibition April-August, 1994.
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