110. KEREWA FIGURE, PAPUAN GULF, PAPUA NEW GUINEA kakame wood, pigments 132 cm. high Provenance Sotheby's, Sydney, 1995 Anthony Meyer, Paris Serge Schoffel, Brussels According to Anthony Meyer, "the kakame, both anthropomorphic and zoomorphic, are either carved from strangely, though naturally, bent pieces of dead wood or are purposely cut from sections of large trees so as to use the trunk as the body and the selected branches as the arms and legs. The human-form kakame represent a highly developed form of the ceremonial imunu objects. Imunu is a form of "vital strength or principal" possibly representing the very essence of the spiritual world. A kakame of this size would most probably be the representation of an important ancestral being. This figure when standing on four legs was obviously used a seat as the dorsal area is well worn".