Specifications

  • Height: 14 cm.
  • Material: wood
  • Position: crouching
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Provenance

Carl Benjamin Hermann Baron von Rosenberg (1817-1888) acq. before 1852; Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt; lost due to bombing during WW2.

Publications

Vatter, Ernst (1926), Plastik der Naturvölker, p. 147, ill. 80; Keurs, Pieter ter (2002), ‘Manipa’s World’ in Tribal Arts 28, p. 113, ill. 11.

Exhibitions

 

Additional information

Akin in style to the epaku, woman’s festive headdress figures, this small carving may have adorned a canoe.

Photo credits

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