Specifications

• Height: 19 cm
• Material: wood
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: korwar 

Provenance

Utrecht Missionary Society; Henry Blekkink, The Hague, 1930es; Private collection The Netherlands

Publications

Frans-Karel Weener, ‘The Korwar Collection of Henry Blekkink’, in Tribal Art 63 Spring 2012, 86-97, fig. 20; Corbey, Raymond (2019), Korwar, p. 129, fig. 97.

Additional information

This type of korwar is also known as block korwar. It is not known what the purpose of these small rectangular items was. An effigy for a child or a lesser important person is plausible.

Photo credits

Jan van Esch