Dayak Ancestral Couple, Late Classic Style, Kalimantan, Borneohampatong heights 42 and 51in (106.5 and 129.5cm)ProvenancePrivate Collection, California, acquired in Indonesia between 1989 and 1991Each with a mysterious aura, the male with a more frightful appearance with gaping mouth, both carved in dense ironwood with significant erosion, the attenuated arms and legs in akimbo with large genitalia; each resting on a support post in back; highly eroded light brown surfaces with encrustations and remnants of dead roots in the crevices.Cf. Bodrogi, Tibor, Art of Indonesia, New York Graphic Society, Ltd., 1972, fig. 30, for a figure in the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, No. 405/68 exhibiting the same posture.