Ancestor figure [korwar] 19th or early 20th century
wood, yellow glass beads
38.0 (h) x 17.5 (w) x 13.0 (d) cm
Purchased 2010
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
NGA 2010.338
Photograph: Michel Gurfinkel, Paris © Galerie Meyer - Oceanic Art, Paris

• Possibly field collected by surrealist filmaker Jacques Viot in 1929
• Ex-Andre Breton collection of non-western art prior to 1951
• Auctioned from the estate of Breton in 2003.