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“I love this sculpture for its energy,” says Thomas Jaffe '71 of this wooden carving from Borneo, a mythological composite of dragon, dog, and pig called an Aso. "It’s absolutely alive!"
The figure, about 28
inches high, is one of over 500 pieces of Southeast Asian tribal sculpture that
Jaffe has agreed to lend to the Yale University Art Gallery on a rotating
basis. Jaffe is also paying for the establishment of an Indo-Pacific art
department at the gallery, with a full-time curator and its own exhibit space.
Art historian Ruth Barnes of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford has been appointed
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