Specifications

• Height: 54 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position: squatting
• Gender: 
• Indigenous name: korwar
• Price realised: € 18.750,-

Provenance

Jacques Viot, ca 1929 Paris, in situ; Pierre Loeb?, Paris; J.J. Klejman, New York; Private collection, New York; Christie’s Paris 3-12-2015, lot 22; Paris collection.

Publications

Corbey, Raymond (2019), Korwar, pp 174-75, fig. 142; Ref.: Held, G.J. (1957), The Papuas of Waropen, 243.

Exhibitions

Additional information

On the remains of a label is written ‘Faitâge ….appen’ presumably in Viot’s handwriting. Corbey supposes Jappen (Yapen) be the full name could be different: Warappen (Waropen)? Columnar and of above average size, it may have had an architectural function. But is it really Yapen-style?

Photo credits

Christie’s, Paris