Portrait of a spirit head ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Abelam · ID: 3039150

Description

wood, painted in traditional colours (red and yellow ochre, black and white pigment), among others with a diadem of dogs teeth, slightly dam. (nose, chin), minor missing parts (headdress backside), abrasion of paint;
representing a clan spirit, which was attached to the face wall of ritual houses (on both ends of a wooden beam).

Littérature comparée

Koch, Gerd, Kultur der Abelam, Berlin 1968, ill. 35