Specifications

• Height: 38 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: korwar
• Price realised: € 1.100,- hp

Provenance

French collection; Willem Zwiep, Amsterdam; De Zwaan, Amsterdam 11-11-2024, lot 5600

Publications

Ref.: Corbey, Raymond (2019), Korwar: Northwest New Guinea ritual art, for instance p. 174-175, fig. 142. p. 81, fig. 148

Exhibitions

Additional information

These vertically extenued figures seem to hail from Yapen Island only. A rather simple, rectangular style of depicting the anthropomorph and the shield. Notice the deeply cut lines to mark the waist and lines indicating fingers.

Photo credits

De Zwaan, Amsterdam