Specifications

  • Height: 37,5 cm.
  • Material: wood
  • Position: standing
  • Gender: female
  • Indigenous name: adu zatua
  • Price realised: € 27.720,-

Provenance

Willem Leonard Steinhart (1898-1982), missionary of Nederlands Luthersch Genootschap (Dutch Lutheran Society); Henry Blekkink (1888-1953); by family descent, 2009; Robert van der Heijden; Alexandra Pascassio and Davide Manfredi; Herbert Le Gall, Paris; Sotheby’s, Paris 8-11-2021, lot 64.

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Additional information

Earliest data in the Sotheby’s catalogue are incorrect: not 1907 and Rheinische Mission, but later than 1923, when Steinhart arrived on the Batu Islands. Style is North or Central Nias

 

Photo credits

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