Seated figure
Papua-Neuguinea
wood, middle brown patina, residues of black paint, rising from an irregular formed base, arms and legs stretched aside, with the elbows and knees connected by vertical struts, comb-like arranged hands, crowned by an elongated head with protruding, clumsy facial features, coiffure of grass fibres, slightly dam., missing parts (fingers of the left hand); presumably originating from a ceremonial hook.
H: 100 cm

Lit.: Kaeppler, Adrienne, Christian Kaufmann und Douglas Newton, Ozeanien, Kunst und Kultur, Herder Verlag Freiburg, Basel, Wien 1994, ill. 594