Specifications

• Height: 17 cm
• Material: wood, cotton
• Position: kneeling
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: stopper of a guri-guri small container

Provenance

Fred ten Houten, before 1970; Volkenkundig museum Gerardus van der Leeuw, Groningen 1970-1995; Private collection The Netherlands.

Publications

Rossel, Siebe & Arnold Wentholt (ed.)(2008), Tribal Treasures in Dutch Private Collections, 125

Additional information

The cotton headdress has a braided belt in which black and white are still distinct, probably the colour red was originally been applied here, too. These three are the sacred Batak colours.