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MAA Catalogue card: 1906 E 164 - ASIA; SOUTH EAST ASIA; INDONESIA; MALAYA
'Ancient WOODEN IMAGE representing a much conventionalised, squatting nude male figure with folded arms resting on its knees, ornate earrings and eyes and mouth inlaid with white shell: the head bears a triple crest and the pedestal is square and ornately carved.'
H.24.5
Malay ?Timor Laut
Professor Bevan
Purchased Fenton 1906 - R.1907.406

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Author: maa

Context (Auction / Sale)
Purchased with funds from Professor A.A. Bevan
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
An ancient wooden image representing a much conventionalised, squatting nude male figure with folded arms resting on its knees, ornate earrings and eyes and mouth inlaid with white shell: the head bears a triple crest and the pedestal is square and ornately carved
Event Date 1906
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
MAA Annual Report 1907: MALAY ISLANDS: '406-408. Three ancient wooden images, each representing a much conventionalised, squatting, nude male figure, with folded arms resting on its knwws, the eyes and mouth being inlaid with white shell: in two the head bears a triple crest, in one (h.24.5") the pedestal is square and ornately carved, and in one (h.26".6) orange-shaped, with plain culindrical base; and in one (h.24".3) the head is covered with a hat, and the upper half of the square-sided carved pedestal bears four large square perforations (h.24".3). ?Timor Laut. *Professor Bevan.'
University of Cambridge. Museum of General and Local Archaeology and of Ethnology. Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Antiquarian Committee to the Senate, March 14, 1907. Appendix: 1. List of Accessions from January 1 to December 31, 1906. pp. 12-13
Event Date 14/3/1907
Author: maa