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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10385132, member: 2844&quot;]Very nice statue, Pottery.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> And a drummer/singer, very important in Taiwanese indigenous ceremonies.</p><p><br /></p><p>It says Republic of China.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> It could have been made just after the administration of the islands was given to the Republic of China in 1945. During the same year the ROC declared Taiwan a province of the ROC.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1949 the Republic of China became communist and was renamed the People&#039;s Republic of China. As a result the sole party and government of the former ROC, the Kuomintang, retreated to Taiwan.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I think your statue was carved between 1945 and 1949.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if BF-65 was the carver of your statue. It was a period of tight control, maybe indigenous artists had to register to be able to sell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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