kranium, cranium, skull
- Description:
- Kranium, painted in red with white batches around the eyes. Black dashes around eyes and in the forehead. Shells are used as eyes and the nose has become pointed, unmodelled with clay and fairytale paint. Up on the deer, the cranium is slightly painted white and black. The jaw is tied together with the other cranium with a rattan. Cranians like these have been declared either trophies of beaten enemies or dead relatives whose memory/power one wants to preserve. They are usually kept in houses that only some in society have access to.
- Location:
- Papua New Guinea
- Format:
- image
- Collections:
- Museum of Ethnography
- Content partner:
- Museum of Ethnography
- Availability:
- Not specified
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