A Nias Standing Figure of a Male Figure

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A Nias Standing Figure of a Male Figure

Finch & Co

Period 1800-1900

Medium Wood, polychrome

A Nias Standing Figure of a Male Figure with a Stylised Palm Crest and a Scroll Back Knot, Ribbed Necklace, Crossed Arms and Erect Penis
Raised upon its original base titled: in typical 'yellow' paint 'Sumatra'
Wood
Indonesia, Nias Peoples
19th Century

Period: 1800-1900

Medium: Wood, polychrome

Provenance: William Downing Webster (1868 - 1913)
Lieut. General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827 - 1900)

cf:
The Pitt Rivers archives record this figure in Volume 4, pl. 1343, as 'Bought of Webster' on October 20th 1896. The entry lists 'two wooden carved Sumatra Idols, male and female' and with watercolour drawings of both showing two views. They were exhbited at the Farnham Musuem, room, 9, case no. 104.

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