This small figure is probably used as a protective amulet. What is interesting about this piece is that both its face and cylindrical body shape bears recalls the large stone altar posts erected by the Tetum people of central Timor.
The Arts of Island SE Asia
This small figure is probably used as a protective amulet. What is interesting about this piece is that both its face and cylindrical body shape bears recalls the large stone altar posts erected by the Tetum people of central Timor.