Specifications

• Height: 33 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position: seated, squatting?
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name:
• Realised price: € 13.200,-

Provenance

Field collected by Ben Tursch ca. 1972; Philippe Guimiot, Brussels; Baudoin De Grunne, Brussels; Sotheby’s Paris, 3-12-2004 lot 27

Publications

Additional information

Heavily eroded piece, arms and legs are missing. The eyes were originally set with shell. Comparable to the one now held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. nr. 1988.143.103, 41 cm. high and also collected by Ben Tursch in the field.

Photo credits

Sotheby’s, Paris