Specifications

• Height: 30,5 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position: standing
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: korwar
• Price realised:

Provenance

William Ockleford Oldham (1879-1949), London 1912 nr. 22428; Penn Museum, Pennsylvania, inv. nr. P3587B

Publications

Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens Issued by W.O. Oldman, No 90, Vol. VII, nr 43.

Exhibitions

Additional information

All the features point in the same direction, Doreh Bay, except for the head. Seen from behind the head is conceived as a helmet and the face is carved in a very realistic way and seems to have more affinity with the sculpture from the Kongo in Africa. Also the soot patina is not common. 

Photo credits

Courtesy Penn Museum, Pennsylvania