Specifications

• Height: 52,3 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: seated
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: adu zatua

Provenance

Private collection, Brussels until ca 2009; Private collection, Antwerp.

Publications

Rossel, Siebe & Arnold Wentholt (2008), Tribal Treasures in Dutch Private Collections, 120.

Additional information

Six such examples of naturalistic statues are known from public collections, namely, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Museum Nasional Jakarta, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Museum auf der Hardt, Wuppertal, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva and the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam. 

Based on similarities in style and morphology, one may presume they originate they originate from one and the same workshop.

Photo credits

Ben Grishaaver, Leiden