Arumbaya Fetish figurine from the Tintin Icons collection

Arumbaya Fetish of Icons: the reproduction of the tribal idol

The Les Icônes collection treats the arumbaya fetish as an autonomous object, without a character around it, in the proportions and colors of Hergé's drawing. The broken ear, the clear break on the wood simulated by the paint, the tribal motifs engraved in the resin: the piece is a reproduction of the object as it appears in The Broken Ear, not a decorative interpretation.

The fetish placed alone on a shelf functions as a piece of tribal art before being a reference to Tintin. For someone who has read The Broken Ear, The Broken Ear says it all. For someone unfamiliar with the album, it's a painted wooden idol that's precise enough to arouse curiosity.

The central object of The Broken Ear, in official resin

Hergé had carefully documented the pre-Columbian arts for L'Oreillechée. The arumbaya fetish, with its flattened face, its almond-shaped eyes and its broken ear which hides the diamond, is the best-drawn object of the most constructed detective novel in the series.

Excluding active catalogue. Numbered, original box and certificate.