Brian Stephenson Fine Art

Collection 1
Indonesian Tribal Art

Kroe Pesihungan

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Kroe iron receptacle or Pesihungan in the form of the mythical Nagga

Details


Item-Number:841001
Item-Description:Kroe iron receptacle or Pesihungan in the form of the mythical Nagga
Medium:Iron
Origin:South Sumatra - Kroe
Dimensions:Length 76 cm
Age:pre 1700
Provenance:Collected Sumatra 1984
Condition:Weathered patina
Notes:Used in the South Sumatran (Lampung) coming of age ritual of tooth filing and blackening. Form is known to have influenced European modern art of the early 1900's c.f. Picasso.


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