Specifications

• Height: 37 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position: squatting
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: tanil tanah
• Price realised: € 13.000,- hp

Provenance

Acquired during the Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (Royal Dutch Geographical Society) expedition to the Kai Islands 1889-1890 by W.O. Planten. Bestowed to the Nederlandse Koloniale Vereniging (Dutch Colonial Society). Etnografisch Museum Artis; Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam; Cornelis Tjepko Bertling (1891-1970), Bloemendaal; De Zwaan, Amsterdam 29-10-2025, lot 5686.

Publications

Pleyte, C.M.(1893), Ethnographische Atlas van de Zuidwester- en Zuidooster-Eilanden, plate XVIII, nr. 8; L. F. van Gent a.o. (1924), Indië in woord en beeld/ Pictorial Netherlands East-Indies, plate 75.

Exhibitions

Additional information

Kai Islands sculpture is very rare and this item is the earliest collected and published.

Photo credits

Veilinggebouw De Zwaan, Amsterdam