Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Timor, late 20th century. A carved wooden figure with an elongated face, large ears and a tall head, seated and holding an animal, identified as a dog, which it brings up to its face.

Wooden ancestor and guardian figures are made by the Atoni and other peoples of Timor. Dogs appear in Timorese and wider Indonesian myth as companions of the ancestors and guides of souls. Field collected, Jakarta, 1991.