Looking for help with wood carved figure

Any help on this wood carvings is appreciated. Seems to be two frogs holding a bird head. Very light weight wood carving

 

the background is well lit..... the carvings a little too dark...for me anyways.. to see what's going on there..

 

These may be better sorry so dark just has a heavy patina

 

Things that come to mind are filipino ( bontoc, kalinga, igorot ) , New Guinea , Indonesia , Malaysia .... I searched online for about 30 minutes, could not come up with that form ....african ? Hopefully someone will be able to help

@Any Jewelry ?

 

Is it Balsa wood ? "Balsa can be found from southern Mexico to Bolivia and is a common plant throughout much of its range"

 

My impression is similar to @Firemandk's - Melanesian/Indonesian area. But I can't find comparables either. As it is small, and apparently designed to stand on a flat surface, I suspect it may be made for sale. The hole in the bottom may indicate that it was previously mounted onto an additional stand. It is sometimes harder to ID such pieces because they don't necessarily follow traditional forms.

Your best bet to narrow it down may be trying to identify the wood. From what I can see in your photos, it looks like there are large pores on the surface. And I don't see growth rings on the bottom - thought they just may not be visible in the photo. Species of palm wood would be light weight, large pored, and without growth rings.

 

Thank you for the comments......I do believe it has some considerable age the one part of the frogs leg has been chipped off at some point but it still retains the dark patina on the wood. So it would have to be done long ago. I also believe the hole on the bottom is not original to the piece and done at some other time. Thinking of drift wood as being the wood. But not sure

 

The shape of the frogs points to Sasak carvings from Lombok, Indonesia. It reminds me of the carved wooden lids to bamboo medicine containers, but those have a round base.
Whatever it is, it is nice.

 

Considerable age means different things to different people.

 

Hello Crim000, I must say you have a very good eye.

 

Hello and thank you @Malcolm