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DKH01-021_koek - Koek ‘Stretcher for displaying a dead body’

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This string figure represents a stretcher for displaying a dead person. In the past, the body of a dead person used to be decorated with leaves and put on a stretcher built of poles to be displayed in the village for one day. The dead person’s spouse would paint the body with clay and stay with it the whole time (Hoenigman 2007: 59). The Awiakay stopped decorating bodies and thus using such str...
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2018
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