Specifications

• Height: 20 cm
• Material: wood, glass beads
• Position: squatting
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: korwar

Provenance

Freerk C. Kamma (1906-1987), acquired in situ, 1930s; on loan to the Wereldmuseum late 1930s – mid 1970s; Mia and Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam; Bruce Frank Primitive Art, New York.

Publications

Baaren, Th. P. van (1968), Korwars and Korwar Style, p. 73, fig. 64.; Corbey, Raymond (2017), Raja Ampat Ritual Art: Spirit priests and ancestor cults in New Guinea’s far West, p. 104, fig 56a; Frank, Bruce, East of Borneo, catalogue Parcours des Mondes, Paris September 2019, nr. 34.

Additional information

For a description of the background of this and other korwar figures acquired by Kamma on Auyu Atoll see Corbey 2017:102-105

Photo credits

Bruce Frank, New York