Photographs © Tim Hamill
ORON, COUPLE FIGURE 2, 47", $2000
Usually representing spirits, ancestors or the primordial couple, these figures were placed in shrines and treated with great respect. Through a wide range of style, scale, belief and function the couples depicted share a timeless, serene equality necessary to the continuity of tribal societies.
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