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Roof panel
Lake Sentani
19th–20th century
Object Place: Lake Sentani, Papua Province, Indonesia
Medium/Technique
Wood
Dimensions
105.41 cm (41 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of William E. Teel
Accession Number2014.290
CollectionsContemporary Art, Africa and Oceania
ClassificationsUnclassified
Provenance1924, said to have been acquired on Lake Sentani by Hendrik F. Tillema (b. 1870 - d. 1924) [see note 1]. Sold by a Mr. Huysman, The Hague, to Loed van Bussel (dealer), Amsterdam; about 1960/1965, sold by van Bussel to Herbert Juan (Bert) da Silva (dealer; b. 1923 – d. 1988) and his first wife, Elly da Silva, The Hague [see note 2]; sold by Elly da Silva to Steven Alpert, Pacific-American Corp., Dallas; March 1, 1994, sold by Pacific-American Corp. to William and Bertha Teel, Marblehead, MA; 2014, bequest of William Teel to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 2014)
NOTES:
[1] Tillema was a retired Dutch pharmacist who assembled extensive photographs of the Dutch East Indes (now Indonesia). He is known to have made a round trip in 1924 and to have photographed a roof with similar panels at that time. See Christraud M. Geary, ed., From the South Seas: Oceanic Art in the Teel Collection (MFA: Boston, 2006), pp. 50-51, cat. no. 10. [2] Provenance information was provided by the dealer at the time of the Teels’ purchase. According to the recollection of Loed van Bussel, he had sold the piece to Bert da Silva about 30-35 years before the sale to the Teels in 1994.
NOTES:
[1] Tillema was a retired Dutch pharmacist who assembled extensive photographs of the Dutch East Indes (now Indonesia). He is known to have made a round trip in 1924 and to have photographed a roof with similar panels at that time. See Christraud M. Geary, ed., From the South Seas: Oceanic Art in the Teel Collection (MFA: Boston, 2006), pp. 50-51, cat. no. 10. [2] Provenance information was provided by the dealer at the time of the Teels’ purchase. According to the recollection of Loed van Bussel, he had sold the piece to Bert da Silva about 30-35 years before the sale to the Teels in 1994.