Specifications
- Height: 64 cm.
- Material: wood
- Position: standing
- Gender: male
- Indigenous name:
- Price realised: € 425.259,-
Provenance
Roland Tual, Paris; Binoche & Giquello, Paris 6-12-2013, lot
Publications
Carpenter, Bruce (2015), Indonesian Tribal Art; The Rodger Dashow Collection, p. 28.
Exhibitions
Additional information
Not many statues hailing from the Tanimbar Islands do have this size and more important has such a presence as this one. This is partly due to the massive globular head with opened mouth and crowned by a massive headdress decorated with holes in line, echoed on other body parts. The short but muscular legs suppose a dancing or walking stance.
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