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Iko, Bedaja, before 1923, teak, 48 x 16 x 13 cm, private collection. Signed ‘badaja.’ Photo: Joop van Putten.

This is one of the many Bedaja statuettes Iko made. The kain has a geometric pattern, and the sampur is striking in that it appears to be a variation on a parang pattern. The statue was acquired around 2010 at a collector’s fair in Utrecht.