Specifications

• Height: 152 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: standing
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: adu hörö, adu so bawa zihönö

Provenance

Rheinische Missiongesellschaft, Barmen-Wupperthal, acquired in ca 1890 in Hilisimaetanö; Loed van Bussel, 1981, Mrs Donath (?) Germany

Publications

Gronert, Walther a.o. (1990), Nias Tribal Treasures, 233, fig. 85

Additional information

This remarkable and rare sculpture is also called adu so bawa ziönö, the image of a thousand faces (Gronert 1990) because of the heads carved on the two prongs of the crown.