Specifications

• Height:131 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position: squatting
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name:
• Price realised: € 54.560,-

Provenance

Philippe Guimiot (1927-2021), Brussels 1975; Private European collection; Lempertz, Brussels 29-1-2020, lot 355.

Publications

Ref.:Jonge, Nico de & Toos van Dijk (1995), Vergeten eilanden, pp. 65-66.

Exhibitions

Additional information

These pole-type sculptures in this part of the South Moluccas either represent a deity or village founders/ mythological heroes. The ornamentation on these poles represent abundity or fecundity, elementary in the community’s life’s progress.

Photo credits

Lempertz, Brussels