Specifications

  • Height: 15 cm
  • Material: wood, glass bead, animal teeth
  • Position: 
  • Gender: 
  • Indigenous name: aiwo (Waropen)

Provenance

Loed and Mia van Bussel, The Hague, 1970s. Rodger Dashow, Boston.

Publications

Carpenter, Bruce W. )2015′, Indonesian Tribal Art, pp. 270-271

Additional information

An amulet with a flat headed korwar figure behind a notched shield and made more effective through application of Chinese glass beads and (probably) crocodile teeth. 

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