Specifications

• Height: 182 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: standing
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: hampatong
• Price realised: € 35.000,-

Provenance

Emile Deletaille, Bruxelles, before 1970, Collection Z Brussels, Sotheby’s, Paris 12-12-2018, lot 46

Publications

Indonesisch Ethnografisch Museum Delft (1973), Kalimantan Kunst en Mythe, no. 84, ill. 67 and 68

Additional information

Dynamic configuration of two figures: a spirit figure with a long jutting out tongue reaching towards the penis stands on a smaller upside down figure whose feet touch the buttocks of the upper figure. A floral band below shows a masqueron with floral wings.

Photo credits

Sotheby’s, Paris