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A fine bone Indonesian Yene altar
A fine bone Indonesian Yene altar
Indonesia, Leti Island
Carved and incised bone.
The extremely accurate carving with its shiny and smooth surface depicts a seated figure with legs drawn to the body in meditative attitude. The way to represent the position of the legs determines the gender of the Yene, the ancestor: male if the legs are drawn to the body, female if the legs are crossed.
This kind of elegant artifacts are small ancestor's altar for private devotional practice and are believed to contain and protect the soul of the deceased for the time necessary to the soul to the eternal departing to the land of deaths.
H cm 10