Rare Malagan Tangala effigy decorated with a combed headdress. We find here the classical iconography of New Ireland art: the figure is caught in a tangle of flying fish and birds. The pigments covering the surface are original. Johann F. Umlauff founded the most important company in Hamburg specializing in the importation of ethnographic material from Oceania and Africa. This Malagan was sold by him, most likely in the certainly in the 1920-1930’s.