Specifications
- Height: 27 cm.
- Material: wood, glass beads
- Position: squatting
- Gender:
- Indigenous name: korwar
- Price realised:
Provenance
Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro, Paris; André Breton (1896-1966), Paris; Hotel Drouot Rive Gauche, Paris 1931, no. 37; (…) Anthony J.P. Meyer, Paris; Luciano Lanfranchi, Milan; Davide Manfredi, Milan 2001; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. nr. 2001.674.
Publications
Rëal, Daniel (1922), La décoration primitive: Oceanie, Pl. IV; The Metropolitan Museum Bulletin, Vol. 60 (Autumn 2002): pp. 48-51; Kjellgren, Eric (2007), Oceania: Art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 38-39.
Exhibitions
Additional information
If we compare the two pictures, we see a difference: the right hand and snake’s head has been restored between 1922 and 2001. The original inv. nr of the Paris museum is gone.