Description: H. 99 cm. Light wood painted with brown crusty earth colour, underneath traces of a white pigment. Pierced and precisely carved pile figure from one piece. Three male figures standing one above the other on their shoulders, the upper one larger and more precisely carved. While the lower figures sit on a column, the third stands only on the shoulder of the lower figure. In addition, all three figures are vertically connected at the chin by a rhinoceros bird's head holding them. Colour peeled off, upper tip of beak pierced. Former collection of a Portuguese missionary in Papua New Guinea. Litt. Gunter Konrad, Asmat Life with the Ancestors, Brückner 198, pp. 128-130. (175)