Specifications

• Height: 31 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: squatting
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: korwar

Provenance

Probably Utrecht Missionary Society; Henry Blekkink (1888-1953), The Hague; Yann Ferrandin, Paris.

Publications

Weener, Frans-Karel (2012), ‘The Korwar Collection of Henry Blekkink’ in Tribal Art 63, p. 89, fig. 11 and 12.

Additional information

Label reads ‘Korwar, Z. kust Biak’. For comparison see 001545. There are more of these which share the same style characteristics, i.e. the head is always carved with a flat headdress, similarly carved eyes, the back with a straight vertical ridge, similarly carved thin limbs and an upper body leaning forward. 

Photo credits

Hugues Dubois