Need help identifying antique wood carving

Hi everyone.
I just got hold of this beauty and would love to find out who he is.
The people I got him from had him for 30 years.
He's definitely hand carved, not one piece.
Can't find anything similar on Google except for a page that sells pictures and called him primitive man.
Every help appreciated.
Thank you

 

I'm not sure that it's actually antique.

It looks like a tall, particularly elaborate version of some common Indonesian tourist carvings, such as this one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/164241905472

or this guy:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255052437502

 

Potteryplease is being kind. This positively is not an antique, and has absolutely no connection with any tribe.

It is an all-too-common contemporary export from Indonesia, designed for the tourist market, and for the inexperienced, unaware buyer, who thinks they are buying something else.

 

Hello @Shaemanuatahua,

You can find a (somewhat heated) discussion about this type of figure in an earlier thread here on the forum (you will need to scroll down through the many duplicate photos):

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/please-help-tribal-african-art-statues.62705/

 

Adding a general note on contemporary export carvings, from Indonesia and elsewhere: such things can indeed be "old" or "in the family for 30 years" (aside from mistakes or incorrect memories) because such carvings have been made for many years; the earliest I know of were made in the 1970s and are still being made today, in exactly the same styles. And I'm sure there are even older examples.
In correspondence I've sometimes been told that an item must be genuine because "Grandma had it since 1980."
Errors aside, there is no reason Grandma couldn't have bought an Indonesian export carving in 1980....in a style that is still being made today.
How often have we heard "from an old estate" or "from a 50-year collection" or "from a collector of ethnographic antiques?" That sort of provenance just doesn't mean much.

 

So agree. Thirty years ago was only 1992, well into the age of mass tourism.

Debora

 

You like him....nothing else matters....
he's great for a backyard conversation piece..!!!

 

Yikes! Was 1992 really 30 years ago?!?