Specifications

• Height: 22 cm.
• Material: wood, glass bead
• Position: seated
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: korwar
• Price realised:

Provenance

William Ockleford Oldham (1879-1949), London 1913; Penn Museum, Pennsylvania, inv. nr. P3587A

Publications

Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens, issued by W.O. Oldman No. 90, Vol. VII, nr 42

Exhibitions

Additional information

A rather small ancestor figure with an elaborated shield instead. Face and shield merge into each other in elaborately carved details, whereas the body behind the shield is worked out  geometrically. The position of the legs is between standing and sitting.

Photo credits

Courtesy Penn Museum, Pennsylvania