Specifications

• Height: 39 cm.
• Material: wood, ceramic
• Position: squatting
• Gender:
• Indigenous name:
• Price realised: (€ 20 – 24.000,-) NS

Provenance

John Friede, New York, Private collection; Dorotheum, Vienna 4-10-2021, lot 66.

Publications

Ref.: Kooijman, S. (1962), ‘Ancestor figures from the MacCluer Gulf area of New Guinea’ in Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden No. 15: 63-80.

Exhibitions

Additional information

This item is very similar to Plate IX fig. 1 and Plate X fig. 3. De legs do not connect to the torso and are rather modelled as hoops on either side of the torso.

Photo credits

Dorotheum, Vienna