Side view (photomontage), Photographs:ARGE HJK, Sascha Hahn | Photographer: Daniel Bartels | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalSide view (photomontage), Photographs:ARGE HJK, Sascha Hahn | Photographer: Daniel Bartels | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalA 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.
Cataloguing data
Depth: 35 cm
Depth: 492 cm
Height: 721 cm
Width: 40 cm
Depth: 108 cm
Weight: 88 kg