Specifications
- Height: 300 cm.
- Material: wood, pigments, sago leaf fibre
- Position:
- Gender:
- Indigenous name: omu
- Price realised: € 1.500,- hp
Provenance
De Zwaan, Amsterdam 9-11-2021, lot 3660.
Publications
Ref.: Gerbrands, Adrian (ed.)(1967), The Asmat, pp. 296-7.
Exhibitions
Additional information
These omu are found in the Northwest Asmat villages. According to Gerbrands not in all villages an ancestor figure is rendered on top, but the sex is clearly rendered in all these ceremonial dance poles.