Lot 136 D α

Cf. Le Fur, Y. et al., “ la mort n'en saura rien”, Paris, 1999, p.51, fig.16, for a similar figure in the Museum am Rothenbaum, Hamburg (formerly the Museum für Völkerkunde), acquired by Müller-Wiesmar, a participant in the Südsee expedition in 1909. He recorded that he had to pay an exceptional price for the figure which was in the men's house in the village of Kopar in the Sepik estuary.