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Catalogusnummer: 5703
Flores, Ngada, a wooden inner threshold of an ancestress house, kawa péré,
the iconography in low-relief like the S-shaped motifs and the horse refer to the clan's fertility and wealth.
W, 155 cm.
Provenance: Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam before 1986; Christie's Amsterdam, ex lot 184, 11-12-1986. Ref.; Douglas Newton (ed.) 1999, Arts of the South Seas. The Collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller, p. 117.
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