Specifications

• Height: 95 cm.
• Material: stone
• Position: standing
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: behu (Central Nias); gowe (North Nias)
• Price realised: € 12.400,-

Provenance

Ben Tursch?; Emile Deletaille (1929-2021), Brussels; Private European collection; Lempertz, Brussels 29-1-2020, lot 350.

Publications

Ref.: Ziegler, Arlette & Alain Viaro (1998), ‘Stones of Power. Statuary and Megalithism in Nias’ in Jean Paul Barbier (ed.), Messages in Stone, 35-77.

Exhibitions

Additional information

Sturdy figure with angular body parts and jutting shoulders, but rounded lower arms. Were the digits notched later? Interesting head and face solution in line with the angularity of the body. Style region: exemplary for Central Nias.

Photo credits

Lempertz, Brussels