Specifications

• Height: 65 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position: squatting
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name:
• Price realised:

Provenance

Wilhelm Müller-Wismar (1881-1916), before 1913; Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne.

Publications

Stöhr, W. a.o. (1981), Art des Indonésiens archaïques, p. 145, fig. 95.

Exhibitions

Museum Rath, Geneva 1981/ Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1982 ( Art of the Archaic Indonesians)

Additional information

Eyes and mouth were originally inlaid with bone or shell. On the top of the head a comb. Base and stalk behind with an abundant cofiguration of vegetal motifs in bas-relief, assigning this statue as a heavenly deity.

Photo credits

H.D. Weber, Cologne