Wall panelling | Photographer: Axel Killian
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Wall panelling
The gabled fronts of the Abelam people's men's houses near the Sepik River in New Guinea are made from a variety of these palm leaf paintings. They are usually present only as individual elements in Western museums, so that the full impact of the overall artwork is weakened. Displayed here is one of the beings from the hereafter that symbolises the inner world of the men's house as a place of the otherworldly and the spiritual.
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Städtische Museen Freiburg
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Cultural attribution
Abelam
Object type
Wandverkleidung
Dimensions
Breite: 440.0 mm, Höhe: 1300.0 mm
Material/Technique
Palm leaf
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1852
Provenance and sources
when
August 1927
where
Papua New Guinea (location/origin)
Melanesia (location/origin)
Oceania (location/origin)
Maprik (location/origin)
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