Figure masculine debout ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Lac Sentani · ID: 3052789

Jac Hoogerbrugge, The Netherlands (coll. in situ, around 1956)
Michel Thieme, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Hoogerbrugge initially served as a transport agent and subsequently as a United Nations official in Indonesia and New Guinea. These positions allowed him to engage deeply with the ritual art of the ethnic groups living there.

In 1956 Hoogerbrugge was transferred to Hollandia, present-day Jayapua, and the capital of the Netherlands New Guinea. Here he quickly found his way to the native villages surrounding Lake Sentani and the Humboldt Bay (Raymond Corbey, Jac Hoogerbrugge, From Lake Toba via Lake Sentani to the Asmat, May 26, 2020).