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Unknown — Hampatong Bahau Dayak Figure, Mahakam River, Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia, XVIIIth century
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Hampatong Bahau Dayak Figure, Mahakam River, Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia, XVIIIth century

An 18th-century hampatong figure of the Bahau Dayak people from the Mahakam River region in Kalimantan (Borneo). This carved wooden figure served ceremonial and spiritual functions in Dayak culture.

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INDONESIA

October 29, 2021

Estimate: $70,000$100,000

Lot 30

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Unknown, Hampatong Bahau Dayak Figure, Mahakam River, Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia, XVIIIth century

An 18th-century hampatong figure of the Bahau Dayak people from the Mahakam River region in Kalimantan (Borneo). This carved wooden figure served ceremonial and spiritual functions in Dayak culture.

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Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Indonesia, Wooden Sculpture, Bahau Dayak, Borneo, Hampatong Figure, Kalimantan, 18th Century, Ancestral Art

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Collected by

Richard Caswell, Sebastián Naranjo, Jonah Handel, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Ethan Elkins, Alex Capecelatro, Mihail Lari, Cleveland Museum of Art