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A pair of Philippine Islands Kababuyan Ifugao guardian figures,…
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Melbourne
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9-Aug-2022
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A pair of Philippine Islands Kababuyan Ifugao guardian figures, Bulul, 19th early 20th century, each carved from solid wood as a pair of male and female figures on waisted circular plinths with hands at their sides, the female figure's hands joined to the thighs. Fine old darkened patine to both. The male figure 58 cm high, 19 cm wide. The female figure 61 cm high, 21 cm wide. Provenance: Floy Quintos collection, Manila, Phillipines. Hiro Kobayashi collection, Kyoto, Japan, 1990s. Private collection, Melbourne. Other Notes: Floy Quintos is a Manilan film director, playright and collector and curator of Filipino historical traditional arts. Hiro Kobayashi was a ethnographic photographer well known for his expeditions to northern Luzon in the 1980s and 1990s where he documented tribal life and avidly collected important Ifugao Art objects.
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