Specifications

• Height: 120,5 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: standing
• Gender: female
• Indigenous name:
• Price realised: Pound 35.000,-

Provenance

Jacques Viot, 1929; Pierre Loeb, Paris; Helena Rubinstein, New York; Baudouin de Grunne, Brussels; Christie’s London 19-6-1979, lot 234

Publications

Kooijman, S (1959), Art of Lake Sentani, fig. 46; Greub, Suzanne (ed.)(1992), Art of Northwest New Guinea, p. 100, ill. 71 and photograph taken in situ by Viot in 1929.

Additional information

Christie’s catalogue note ‘[….] one of a group of about sixty figures that were revealed by Dr. Jacques Viot from their secret burying place in Lake Sentani where they had been hidden by the local inhabitants to escape the missionaries.’

Photo credits

Christie’s London