Murik Lakes Figure-Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection-New Guinea Art-Oceanic Art
Murik Lakes Ancestral Spirit Figure, kandimbwag
Murik Lakes, Coastal Sepik River area, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Collected 1936 by Louis Pierre Ledoux
Figure has circular tag with Kaup 3/2/36 and on the reverse “Malita” which is the pidgin English word for kandimbwag. There is other text that is illegible.
Late 19th/early 20th century
Published in "Three Collections of Oceanic Art" by Michael Hamson, item 22R, pages 64/65.