This pre-contact male figure was collected in Turubu Village in the 1930s by Georg Holtker and has subsequently been in the St. Augustin Museum in Germany until recently. Holtker was an ethnologist who wrote several articles on New Guinea art in the 1930s for both the Dresden and Leipzig Museums. The figure has the loose, organic flow of a pre-contact piece without any of the crispness or rigidity found in metal-carved figures. The ancestral spirit represented has the tall conical headdress often found on figures from the coastal area to the west of the mouth of the Sepik River. The colors are strong and the eyes set deeply under the overhanging brow. The figure is 28 ½" in height. sold