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.