Specifications

• Height: 30,5 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: korwar
• Price realised: € 7.560,-

Provenance

Marie-Ange Ciokowska (1898-1992), Paris; by descendent; Sotheby’s, Paris 22-6-2023, lot 21.

Publications

ref.: Corbey, Raymond (2019), Korwar, pp. 110-114.

Exhibitions

Additional information

With a faceted conical headdress and upward turned hands, this korwar can be ascribed as hailing from the island Biak. Strange configuration of the limbs.

Photo credits

Sotheby’s Paris