INDO640: Dayak Tun Tun

Dayak Tun-Tun with strong crouching figure on top. The classic hunkered figure and overall patina is good and dark from age and use. Tun-Tun or "pig sticks" were used by many of the Dayak tribal groups to set the correct height of the pig trap trip string, and to spiritually bring game to the trap.    

20 inches tall. 19th or early 20th century, Borneo, Indonesia.    ....$1500.00