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001920 Papua, Cenderawasih Bay, ancestor figure

001920 Papua, Cenderawasih Bay, ancestor figure

Specifications Height: 29 cm. Material: wood, glass bead Position: standing Gender: Indigenous name: korwar Price realised: € 28.000,- hp Provenance Cornelis Marinus Pleyte (1863-1917), Amsterdam 1897; William Downing Webster (1868-1913), Bicester 1897; Pitt Rivers...

001925 Moluccas, Leti, ancestor figure

001925 Moluccas, Leti, ancestor figure

Specifications Height: 41 cm. Material: wood Position: squatting Gender: male Indigenous name: Price realised: Provenance Ben Tursch ?; Count Baudouin de Grunne, Wezembeek-Oppem Publications Rotary Sint-Niklaas 1979, Oude kunst uit Afrika en Oceanië, ill. 27...

001917 Papua, Humboldt Bay, ceremonial cloth

001917 Papua, Humboldt Bay, ceremonial cloth

Specifications Length: 95 x 63,5 cm. Material: bark cloth, pigments Position: Gender: Indigenous name: maro Price realised: € 25.400,- Provenance Jacq. Viot (1898-1973), acquired in situ 1929; Pierre Loeb (1897-1964), Paris; André Lefevre (1891-1963), Paris; Loudmer...

001916 Moluccas, Leti-Babar, ancestor figure

001916 Moluccas, Leti-Babar, ancestor figure

Specifications Height: 6,8 cm. Material: wood Position: squatting Gender: male Indigenous name: Price realised: € 950,- hp Provenance Aldo & Hannie van Eyck, Loenen aan de Vecht; De Zwaan, Amsterdam 11-12-2025, lot 671. Publications Exhibitions Additional...

001915 Moluccas, Leti, ancestor figure

001915 Moluccas, Leti, ancestor figure

Specifications Height: 11,6 cm. Material: wood, glass bead Position: squatting Gender:  Indigenous name: Price realised: € 3.300,- hp Provenance Aldo & Hannie van Eyck, Loenen aan de Vecht; De Zwaan, Amsterdam 11-12-2025 Publications Exhibitions Additional...

001914 Moluccas, Leti, ancestor figure

001914 Moluccas, Leti, ancestor figure

Specifications Height: 11,5 cm. Material: wood Position: squatting Gender: Indigenous name: yene Price realised: € 2.200,- hp Provenance Aldo & Hannie van Eyck, Loenen aan de Vecht; De Zwaan, Amsterdam 11-12-2025, lot 669. Publications Exhibitions Additional...

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