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A boat with a turtle appears at the base of the bisj, with a large crocodile above it. A total of ten ancestor figures are depicted, a woman with a child and eight men. The second figure (from the bottom) has a head trophy. The ancestors are (from top to bottom): Wmakpitjs, Yosen, Papney, Tifu, Set, Awok, Panbopanpitjs, Dairetsj, Besetipits, Tjokoper. All were killed in headhunting raids, two of them by warriors from Atsj, a village traditionally at enmity with Amborep. A kakadu head is depicted at the top of the cemen. The bisj was owned by the Dawer clan.

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Asmat (Simai)
Object type
Ancestral pole
Dimensions
Diameter: 10 cm
Depth: 35 cm
Depth: 492 cm
Height: 721 cm
Width: 40 cm
Depth: 108 cm
Weight: 88 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Pigment, Feathers (cassowary), Plant fibre , Sago leaf
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 56992

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Melanesia
    West New Guinea
    Amborep
    Indonesia
    Papua
    who
    Asmat (Simai)
  • Collecting
    who
    Gunter Konrad - Collectors
    Ursula Konrad - Collectors
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Ursula and Gunter Konrad 1995
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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