KORWAR FIGURE
KORWAR FIGURE
Wandamen Bay area, Western New Guinea
20 cm. high
** Provenance
Cf. Van Baaren, Th.P., "Korwars and Korwar Style : Art and Ancestor Worship in North-west New Guinea", The Hague, 1968, figs33 and 34. For an example very close in style and formerly in the Meulendijk collection, see Christie's London, 21 October 1980, lot 283.
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KORWAR FIGURE
Wandamen Bay area, Western New Guinea
20 cm. high
** Provenance
Cf. Van Baaren, Th.P., "Korwars and Korwar Style : Art and Ancestor Worship in North-west New Guinea", The Hague, 1968, figs33 and 34. For an example very close in style and formerly in the Meulendijk collection, see Christie's London, 21 October 1980, lot 283.