Specifications

• Height: 32 cm.
• Material: wood, cotton
• Position: squatting
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: korwar
• Price realised: € 42.000,- hp

Provenance

Henry Blekkink, The Hague (1888-1953); Dutch private collection; Lempertz, Brussels 31-1-2024, lot 175

Publications

Weener, F., ‘The Korwar Collection of Henry Blekkink’, in Tribal Art Magazine, no.63, Spring 2012, p.88
Corbey, R., “Korwar: Northwest New Guinea ritual art according to missionary sources”, Leiden, 2019, p.68, fig.41, p.77, fig.49 and pp.116-117, fig.85

Exhibitions

Additional information

As the label mentions Southcoast of Biak.

Photo credits

Robert Cusack, Cologne/ Lempertz