Indonesia Sumba, Hand Carved, Ancestral Figures Male and Female.
Indonesia Sumba, Hand Carved, Indonesian Ancestral Figures Male and Female.
Indonesia is home to thousands of culturally distinct groups that occupy roughly 6,000 islands. (The rest of the country’s 11,508 islands are humanless.)
Sumba Being one of the few cultures in the world that have built megalithic burials, the people of Sumba treat their ancestral spirits or ‘Marapu’ seriously. These ‘guardian figures’, as they are also considered, are prominent in Sumbanese life, art and architecture.
Item Code - WOO2A91LAW
Width: 3 1/2" Height: 14 3/8" Depth: 2 7/8" Weight: 748 g