Specifications

• Height: 21 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: standing
• Gender: male
• indigenous name: korwar

Provenance

Private collection, The Hague.

Publications

Rossel, Siebe * Arnold Wentholt 2008), Tribal Treasures in Dutch Collections, 134.

Corbey, Raymond (2019), Korwar, Northwest New Guinea ritual art according to missionary sources, 134, fig. 103.

Additional information

Exceptional in its abstract design. Whereas the body of the ancestor is carved in the usual way, the shield and face are left without details.

Photo credits

Ben Grishaaver, Leiden