Specifications

• Height: 26 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: squatting
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: korwar

Provenance

Probably Utrecht Missionary Society ( Utrechts Zendingsgenootschap); Henry Blekkink (1888-1953), The Hague 1930s; Private Collection, The Netherlands.

Publications

Weener, Frans-Karel (2012), ‘The Korwar Collection of Henry Blekkink’ in Tribal Art 63, p. 91, fig. 18.

Additional information

A diminutive figure without arms and legs is positioned between the feet of the central figure. Biak island.

Photo credits

Jan van Esch.