IDNO

T.151886.RPT

Description

On Catalogue Card: "S.P. 245. New Guinea / Madang. Potters of Bil Bil. / Aerial Sepik Maprik." [Poignant's manuscript]
"32, 33. Carved clan figures (Ngwalndu) Kalabu village, Maprik. Carved and painted figures representing ngwalndu or clan spirits housed in men's ceremonial house in village of Kalabu. Sepik District. Although clan figures are often visually indistinguishable one from another, their clan men identify each by his name. These clan spirits are responsible for fertility in nature especially as manifested in the extra big yams grown up to " 2 ft." [Poignant's typed text]

Carved figures inside a haus tambaran (ancestor house) in Kalabu. [KK 18/08/2022]

Place

Oceania Melanesia; Papua New Guinea; Momase Region; East Sepik Province; Maprik District; Maprik; Kalabu

Cultural Affliation

Abelam

Named Person

Photographer

Poignant, Axel

Collector / Expedition

Date

1969

Collection Name

Poignant Collection

Source

Poignant, Roslyn

Format

Colour Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.148696.RPT - T.152693.RPT were located in the drawer file of transparency sheets, numbered C1021/.

T.151865.RPT - T.151888.RPT were located in a transparency sheet, numbered C1021/134.