funerary/tomb figure

carved wood; right eye inset with blue-and-white ceramic fragment; mounted

20th century

Jarai (Gia-rai) people, Central Highlands, Vietnam

height: approx. 70 cm, not including mount

purchased in Vietnam by Jack Daulton

For the type, see Nguyen Van Ku and Luu Hung, Funeral Houses in the Central Highlands of Vietnam (Hanoi: The Gioi Publishers, 2002-2003), pg. 194, ill. 260.