Specifications

• Height: 35 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position: squatting
• Gender:
• Indigenous name:
• Price realised:

Provenance

Max Itzikovitz, Paris; Thomas Jaffe, New York, promised gift to the Yale University Art Gallery ILE2012.30.524.

Publications

Stöhr, W. a.o. (1981), Art des Indonésiens archaïques, p. 131, fig. 78.

Exhibitions

Rath museum, Geneva 1981/ Dallas Museum of Fine Arts 1982

Additional information

In 1981 this figure was thought of as akin in style to Wetar. This is however an ancestor figure from Atauro in an archaic style. Notice the struts between arms and torso, the diabolo-shaped headdress and the shortened and indented fingers and toes. The front of this sculpture is treated as a flat plane with a horizontal ridge indicating the belly.

Photo credits

Johan Vipper/ YUAG