Specifications

• Height: 36 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: squatting
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: korwar
• Price realised: (nc € 8.000,-)

Provenance

Piet Ouborg, The Hague acquired before 1938, Lempertz, Brussels 28-4-2007, lot 17

Publications

Heden (2008) Het masker als intermediair/ The mask as an intermediary, pp 40-41

Additional information

The meaning of an ancestor figure holding a diminutive figure in front is not known. My guess is that they fuctioned within initiation rites.

Photo credits

Lempertz Brussels