Specifications

• Height: 52,5 cm.
• Material: woo
• Position: seated
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: adu zatua

Provenance

Guy van Rijn, Brussels; private collection, Antwerp, Belgium

Publications

Rossel, Siebe & Arnold Wentholt (2008), Tribal Treasures in Dutch Private Collections, 120

Additional information

The ancestor figures from South Nias, carved in this naturalistic style reflect presumably the colonial context. Six ancestor figures in this style are known in public collections: Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin; Museum Nasional, Jakarta; Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum Barbier-Mueller, Geneva; Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam and in the Collection of the Vereinigte Evangelische Mission, Wuppertal.Because of the congruency in style, these statues probably hail from the same workshop.