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Phalliform ancestor figure
Toraja, Bada, Zentral-Sulawesi

heavy, beige-coloured stone, a cylindrical block, flattened on both sides, tapering towards the base, eyes, nose and mouth indicated, the neck slightly indented, slightly dam.;
the double-entendre of ancestor as phallus is a symbolic equation with fertility and continuity.

H: 81 cm, (4748/001)

Provenance:
Coll. August Flick, Cologne, Germany

Lit.: Barbier-Mueller, Messages in Stone, 1998, pl. 3

Phalliform ancestor figure
Toraja, Bada, Zentral-Sulawesi

heavy, beige-coloured stone, a cylindrical block, flattened on both sides, tapering towards the base, eyes, nose and mouth indicated, the neck slightly indented, slightly dam.;
the double-entendre of ancestor as phallus is a symbolic equation with fertility and continuity.

H: 81 cm, (4748/001)

Provenance:
Coll. August Flick, Cologne, Germany

Lit.: Barbier-Mueller, Messages in Stone, 1998, pl. 3