"Large Protective Maternity Statue Important Outdoor Patina Sunda Islands Indonesia"
A short film to see it clearly => VIDEOLarge statue of a protective ancestor, it is a maternity ward with hands clasped on the stomach, Sunda Islands, Indonesia. These statues were planted at the entrance to villages or houses for protection and this one particularly for pregnant women or young mothers, it also has a significant faded, cracked and grooved patina which testifies to its long stay outdoors. .
Total height with the base 92 cm, late 19th or early 20th, former collection Nina Wolmark French author, screenwriter and dialogue writer. Collected on site by herself and her husband in the 1980s.
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