SILVER MEO WARRIOR HEADDRESS ADORNMENT HIGHLAND ATONI TIMOR ART NK1

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SILVER MEO WARRIOR HEADDRESS ADORNMENT HIGHLAND ATONI TIMOR ART NK1:
$295.00

A MEO WARRIOR CEREMONIAL HEADDRESS FROM THE HIGHLAND ATONI PEOPLE OF TIMOR INDONESIA. MADE FROM OLD DUTCH COLONIAL COINED SILVER MIXED WITH PRECIOUS METALS, PLEASE NOTE: THIS ITEM IS NOT THE SAME AS IN THE PICTURES IN SITU.

ESTIMATED sale VALUE $1300.00 TO $1800.00

AN ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTABLE

provenance: private collection Bali

MEASURES: 12\" x 1.5\" Inches = 30 cm x 4 cm

The Tetum of central Timor are one of the largest ethnic groups on the island. Before the Portuguese and Dutch colonization, they were fragmented into dozens of small states. Skirmishes between them were frequent, with headhunting a popular activity. The First Europeans in Timor were the Portuguese, perhaps as early as 1512, the year after they captured Malaka. Like Chinese and western Indonesian traders before them, The Portuguese found the island a plentiful source of Sandalwood (prized in Europe for its aroma and for the medicinal Santalol made from the oil).

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I have been collecting tribal art and antiques for well over 25 years, my collecting trips have taken me to many distant countries, the artifacts of interest are authentic tribal and ethnographic implements used in divination and healing.

my travels have taken me to out of the way places where there are no cars or hotels, some of the remote places are only reachable by foot , so I often take long treks into the bush to find some of these rarepieces, but mostly its a question of being in the right place at the right time , my collectionconsistsof ethnographicmaterial from animist tribal peoples of Africa Asia and south East Asia

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