IKAT HANGING SUMBA ISLAND, PROBE ISLANDS, INDONESIA. Decorat - Lot 124

IKAT HANGING SUMBA ISLAND, PROBE ISLANDS, INDONESIA. Decorated with friezes of mythical animals, facing each other around a tree of life, alternating between monumental pheasants and deer, and smaller lions, in bands on a red background, in the center of star motifs. 230 x 117 cm. Provenance: Former Collection of Mr. Michel Grazon (1947-2017), dispersed at the public sale in Paris: Millon, Tribal, Hôtel Drouot, June 14, 2022. In this last catalog, Mr. Antonio Guerreiro (Doctor in Ethnology, Paris, EHESS, 1985. Associate researcher at the Institut de recherche sur le Sud-Est asiatique (UMR 9962, CNRS-Université de Provence) states that: "Mr. Michel Grazon, a geologist by training, began his career in the 970s, in Borneo, in the large islands of Sonde, carrying out missions for the Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires (Cogema) and that from the age of twenty-five, Michel Grazon collected, on the occasion of his visits to the villages of the upstream regions, a large number of significant pieces of Dayak cultures, belonging to different ethnic groups: weapons, sculptures, textiles, basketry, agrarian utensils, musical instruments, ritual objects, etc. "