Photographer: Peter Jacob | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalTelao, a dirty white earth (collector no. 809), which probably comes from Siassi Island, is mixed with a little red chalk and scraped taipung (802). The two stones 810 (worked) and 811 (worked?) are rolled back and forth in this mixture. The soles of the feet, knees, knee joints and elbow joints are then dabbed with these stones, while the deceased parents are called upon to ensure that the desired woman looks at the dancer for a long time and joins him. The small lead (812), a shot bullet, is attached to the top of the hollowed-out end (...)
Cataloguing data
Diameter: 6,5 cm
Width: 6,7 cm
Height: 18 cm
Depth: 6,7 cm
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Production
Collecting
Assignment to a curated holding:
Oceania
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