Specifications

• Height: ca. 22 cm
• Material: wood
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name:

Provenance

Schoffel de Fabry, Paris, Parcours des Mondes 2017

Publications

Ref.: Wentholt (2013), ‘Statue as stand for umbrella or lance’ in Brinkgreve & Stuart Fox (ed.) Living with Indonesian Art. The Frits Liefkes Collection, 162-163

Additional information

The head made of a medium hard wood was once part of a (human) body, which can be deduced from the transverse hole in the neck. As there are no accoutrements the function is unclear. Yet, as a statue in the Liefkes collection – now National Museum of Ethnology Leiden – shows, it may have been part of a court statue for a ritual functional purpose.