Specifications

• Height: 171,5 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: standing
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: kawe
• Price realised: FF 60.-100.000,-

Provenance

Jean-Louis Picard, Paris 12-5-1992, lot 56

Publications

Musée d’etnographie de Neuchatel 1970, ‘Art Océanien, nr. 842

Ref. : Gerbrands, Adrian (ed.) (1967), The Asmat of New Guinea. The Journal of Michael Clark Rockefeller. p. 280.

Additional information

Casuarinen Coast. See for an almost identical figure 001016, collected in Buepis by dr. Clemens Voorhoeve in around the same period as the figure collected by Michael Clark. Stylistically they are very close.