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THB19th C. Filipino Ifugao Wood Nude Female Bulul Figure
Lot 61
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Southeast Asia, Philippines, Luzon Island, Ifugao culture, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. An impressive wood female figure representing the rice deity bulul shown standing nude with a bulbous, likely pregnant, belly. Standing on an integral plinth, the stylized figure presents sturdy legs, broad feet, pointed breasts, long arms, delineated genitalia, and incised fingers and toes. Her giant, bald head rises from a thick neck above a prominent clavicle, displaying generously-lidded, almond-shaped eyes, a triangular nose, a petite, slightly open mouth, and a square jaw, all flanked by an enlarged pair of ears with drill holes for suspending ornaments. A deep cavity pierces the center of the domed head, likely originally serving for the insertion of a plume of hair. Size: 5.6" W x 21.2" H (14.2 cm x 53.8 cm)
Sculptural art in Ifugao is not just decorative, but also crucial to the wellbeing of the community. Traditionally the men carve sculptures like this, and women weave colorful textiles. Bulul, carved from a single piece of wood and representing the human body in a stylized form, are often in male and female pairs, and ritually consecrated with pig or chicken blood, and then placed into rice fields and granaries, where they function as guardians.
Cf. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013.1105.
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection, 1995 to 2010; ex-John Richardson collection, Massachusetts, USA
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#172748Loss to back corner of plinth. Some nicks, chips, abrasions, and old, inactive insect holes, all commensurate with age. A few stable fissures to head and plinth. Otherwise, very nice with great patina.Condition
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