Specifications

• Height: 67 (female), 68 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position: standing
• Gender: male and female
• Indigenous name:
• Price realised:

Provenance

Allan Stone, New York; Thomas Murray, Mill Valley

Publications

Feldman, Jerome (ed.) (1985), The Eloquent Dead, frontispiece; Online catalogue Tribal Art Society November, pp 8-11.

Exhibitions

UCLA Frederick S. Wright Gallery, Los Angeles 8/11 – 24/11/1985

Additional information

Ancestor spirit figures from the Lio people, Ende were kept in the attick. A pair of figures is rare. This pair is similar in style and probably by the same hand to the male figure kept at the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva until 2001 and which is now in the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris, inv. nr. 70.2001.27.171. See nr 001623.

Photo credits

Thomas Murray, Mill Valley