Specifications

• Height: 44,5 cm
• Material: wood, cloth
• Position: squatting
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: korwar

Provenance

Probably Utrecht Missionary Society, first quarter 20th century; Henry Blekkink (1888-1953), The Hague 1030s; Rodger Dashow, Boston.

Publications

Weener, Frans-Karel (2012), ‘The Korwar Collection of Henry Blekkink’ in Tribal Art 63, p. 88 fif. 7; Carpenter, Bruce W. (2015), Indonesian Tribal Art, 94-95.

Additional information

Lable reads ‘Korwar van …nga, doeber Zuidkust ..gr. eil, Biak’ 

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