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Ancestor Figure (tiki)no date

Not on view
Carved wooden figure of a stylized standing human form with large domed head, swollen abdomen, and bulbous legs, in reddish-brown polished wood
Title
Ancestor Figure (tiki)
Place Made
New Caledonia, Northern Area
Date Made
no date
Medium
Wood
Dimensions
Height: 10 1/4 in. (26.04 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Masco Corporation
Accession Number
M.2009.127.6
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Art of the Pacific
Provenance
Linden Museum, Stuttgart (N.S. 10590). [Mathias Komor (1909–1984), Fine Arts & Antiquities, New York]. Anonymous (sale, London, Sotheby’s, 6 June 1983, lot 109). Wayne Heathcote (b. 1943), New York, NY, sold to; Masco Corporation Collection, Livonia, MI, gift 2009 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Wardwell, Allen. Island Ancestors: Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection. [Seattle]: University of Washington Press, 1994.