Indonesian Statue - Sumba

Indonesian Statue in Wood:

- Totem or wooden statue from Indonesia.
- This kind of totem or Statue is usually placed on top of an house in the corner of the roof in order to protect the house.
- Indonesian Handicrafts which comes from tribal art.
- Indonesia has a long history of stone and wood carving. The native Indonesians tribes have their own distinct tribal sculpture styles, usually created to depict ancestors, deities and animals.
- The most notable sculptures are those of Timor tribal, Asmat wooden sculpture of Papua, the Dayak wooden mask and sculpture, the ancestral wooden statue of Toraja, also the totem-like sculpture of Batak and Nias tribe.
- This statue is made ​​from an old wood.