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Depiction of a yam spirit (wapinyan)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Abelam
Object type
Figure
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 163 x 36 x 20 cm
Gewicht: 16,1 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Pigment, Feather
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
VI 48602

Provenance and sources

when
around 1959
where
Melanesia [Großregion]
New Guinea [Insel]
Northeast New Guinea [Region]
Maprik [Region]
Kalabu I [Ort]
Papua New Guinea [Land]
who
Abelam

who
Koch, Gerd - Collectors

Description
Purchase from Gerd Koch 1967

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