Paire de figures "timbuwara" ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Southern Highlands · ID: 3042453

Description

rattan, plant fibre, yellow ochre, white pigment, flat bodies with rod-shaped limbs and disc-shaped heads with central drilling, slightly dam., pigment partly crumbled away;
“timbuwara” (“spear of the door”) are said to have been attached to the doorway of the Men’s House. Secondly, they are said to represent a man’s deceased wife, and were kept in the Men’s House where relatives could pay their respects. Thirdly they are said to have been worn on the head for certain fertility ceremonies.

Littérature comparée

Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. I, Köln 1995, p. 304, ill. 334