Ernest Wauchope separated from the body by a long neck. It was collected by Merk-Ikier in 1925 (Kelm 1968: 20; Kaufmann et al. 2015: fi g. 60) and is now in the Berlin Museum. This fi gure’s style can be likened to that of a statuette from Agrumara village collected on February 18, 1913, by Adolf Roesicke on the Kaiserin-Augusta-Fluss expedition (Kaufmann et al. 2015: fi g. 61). The largest and most impressive sculpture in this style is the one now in the Barbier-Mueller Museum (fi g. 19), which is 146 centimeters tall. It was formerly in the Eckert-Voegelin Collection in Basel, prior to which it was the property of Arthur Speyer (Schindlbeck 2012: 111). It is the only one that has a head that projects far in front of its shoulders, giving it an intensely aggressive appearance. Given its appearance in photos of the Speyer Collection in Berlin (fi g. 26), the feather diadem on the back of its head must be a later addition. This fi gure serves as the cover image for several books (Muensterberger 1979; Peltier and Morin 2006). Three other sculptures should be mentioned here. One is at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Cambridge (fi g. 20) and was brought back by Gregory Bateson (Firth 1936: 41; Schmitz 1971: plate 93). It is possible that it was given to him by Ernest Wauchope during his 1929 expedition. It has the unusual quality of having genitalia in the form of a detachable erect penis. The fi gure is seated on a truncated conical base. Another male fi gure, seated on a base of two superposed and truncated cones, is of very similar manufacture and is about the same height (approximately 90 centimeters) as the one shown by Nasser & Company mentioned above. It is at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in the Michael Rockefeller Memorial Collection (#1979.206.1488/fi g. 21). The third fi gure, also a representation of a seated fi gure on a base made up of four stacked cones, was in the Jolika Collection in San Francisco (fi g. 23) and was sold at auction by Christie’s on June 19, 2013, for 2,500,000 euros. It is believed to have been collected by colonial administrator E. A. Wisdom in the 1930s. According to Crispin Howarth (2015a: 220 and 101), three other relevant sculptures are preserved at the British Museum (invs. Oc.1936.0720.175, Oc.1936.0720.176, and Oc.1936.0720.177), two at the Anthropology Museum of Queensland University in Brisbane (invs. 4739 and 26402), and one at the Museum Victoria in Melbourne (inv. X47996). Two other famous sculptures can be associated with this corpus of works, even if, according to Newton, they 113 FIG. 19 (left): Gable sculpture for a ceremonial house. Wood, traces of pigment, shell, vegetal fi ber, cossowary feathers. H: 146 cm. Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva, inv. 4077. © Musée Barbier-Mueller. Photo: Studio Ferrazini-Bouchet. This sculpture is recognizable as no. 26 in the photo. FIG. 20 (right): Gable sculpture for a ceremonial house. Wood, shell. H: 86.5 cm. University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, 30.487. Reproduced by permission of the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.
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