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Is this mystery statue, which is to be found in the International Cryptozoology Museum, a stylized native art example of a Proto-Pygmy form of an unknown hominoid?
The alleged origin is noted on a small label on its back. It says, “Made in Indonesia.” I obtained the figurine from an American zoological park’s gift shop, during one of my travels. The clerk had no additional information about it, other than what existed on that tiny label.It is not a monkey. It has five toes that seem to be hominid. Furthermore, it is apparently too bipedal to represent the known apes from southern Asia, i.e. the orangutans and the gibbons. The robustness and represented gender may indicate it is a replica of a small hominid that may be a pregnant.
What is it?
At first look, this figurine remarkably resembles one from Africa.
Christian Le Noel told me the statue shown below was from Tanzania and represented an agogwe. However, Jean luc Drevillion then informed me that this was incorrect. Drevillion said it is a statuette of kara-komba, also known as the bush dwarf or toulou, which is the local form of the Proto-Pygmies to be found in the Central African Republic.
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