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>Costume Studies
>>1830 Nias siulu
>>>context
>>>>period sources
Subjectraja / siulu / salawa chief
Culture: Ono Niha
Setting: slave raiding, tribal warfare, Nias 19thc











* Brooklyn Museum > Pacific Islands
"Ancestor Figures (Adu Bihara) 
Island of Nias, 
Gunungsitoli village, 
early 20th century  
wood and pigment"




* Brooklyn Museum > Pacific Islands
"Ancestor Figure (Adu Zatua 
Island of Nias, Gunungsitoli village, 
early 20th century  
Wood, fur, and pigment"

* Dallas Museum of Art > Pacific Islands
"Seated figure
Indonesia: Nias Island
Late 19th-early 20th century
Wood"





* Tropenmuseum > Zuidoost Azië 
"Voorouderbeelden.  
Hout.  Nias, Indonesië.  
Begin 20e eeuw."











* Dallas Museum of Art > Pacific Islands














* Tropenmuseum Amsterdam