Specifications

• Height: 30 and 34 cm
• Material: wood, pigment
• Position: squatting
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: adu nuwu/zatua
• Price realised: € 21.150,-

Provenance

Herbert Juan da Silva (1923-1988), The Hague; Christie’s Amsterdam, 11-12-2001, lot 62.

Publications

Additional information

Both ancestor figures are carved by the same hand; the protrusion underneath shows that they originally were placed in an ancestor altar, daro daro.

Photo credits

Christie’s Amsterdam