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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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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Asmat (Simai)
Object type
Ancestral pole
Dimensions
Durchmesser: 10 cm (10 cm über unterem Ende)
Tiefe: (ohne Auskrgung): 35 cm
Höhe: (bis zum Beginn der Auskragung): 492 cm
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 721 x 40 x 108 cm
Gewicht: 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

where
Melanesia [Großregion]
West New Guinea [Insel/Region]
Amborep [Dorf]
Indonesia [Land]
Papua [Provinz]
who
Asmat (Simai)

who
Gunter Konrad - Collectors
Ursula Konrad - Collectors

Description
Purchase from Ursula and Gunter Konrad 1995

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