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Two female and six male ancestors are depicted here, whereby the figure holding the cemen is an ancestor's wife. A bird is depicted at the top of the cemen.

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Cultural attribution
Asmat (Bismam)
Object type
Ancestral pole
Dimensions
Height: 600 cm
Width: 33 cm
Depth: 139 cm
Depth: 40 cm
Diameter: 12 cm
Weight: 84,5 kg
Depth: 475 cm
Material/Technique
Wood, Pigment, Plant fibre
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 56996

Provenance and sources

Production
when
before 1995
where
Melanesia
West New Guinea
Ewer
Indonesia
Papua
who
Asmat (Bismam)
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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