Pair of ceremonial mosquito net hangers from East Java, or Madura, probably 19th to 20th centuries
These wooden mosquito net hangers are carved in the form of a dragon and are gilded. They were probably used over a bed or a seating area. The mosquito net hangers were made and used in East Java or Madura in southern Indonesia. Mosquitoes carry a number of diseases but their role in transmitting malaria was identified in 1898 by Ronald Ross (1857–1932), a British bacteriologist.
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Object Number:
- 1986-1008
- Materials:
- wood
- type:
- hanger
- credit:
- Christie's Amsterdam, B.V.