a large Male figure
Carved wood, ochre and black pigments. Museum inventory mark under right buttock (71.10.460). Presumed period: late 19th – early 20th century . Watam village area. Mouth of the Sepik River. Papua New Guinea
Height: 119.2 cm
Provenance :
– University of Fribourg until 1962
– Sankt Augustin, Steyler Missionare, Museum Haus Völker und Kulturen,
Germany. (Inventory 71.10. 460)
– Ulrich Hoffmann Collection, Germany
– Serge Schoffel Collection, Brussels
– Kevin Conru Collection, Brussels
– Professor Mark’s. T. Groudine collection, Seattle, USA
Photo captions:
– Description of the statue by the Musée de Sangt Augustin
– Georg Höltker taking anthropological measurements of Gaie,2nd chief of the village of Bosngun on the Bur river.
Photographs taken by Father Joseph Munch in January 1937 © archive SVD
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