kvinnoskulptur, skulptur, female figure, sculpture

Description:

The female figure cut out of a piece of wood sitting with white barred legs. The cut so that clear wades and thighs are formed with hands on the knees. Around the waist is a grass crop attached, which is colored in brown and black. Around the arms, the figure has twisted filament bands that are tied together. Around the neck, the figure is decorated with a white crescent-shaped decoration cut in low relief and colored white. The figure has an oval face with a mouth cut in low relief with red lips, large pierced nose with a knotted string of plants in. Even the outlying ears are pierced and the plant fiber cords tied therein. The face is white painted on the face with red curvy lines. In the forehead, circles are painted on either side of the forehead. In the middle of the forehead is a drop-shaped figure painted. Caulians are used as eyes, marked eyebrows. The head ends as in a bud, depicting hair. In the Middle Sepika area and especially in the ceremonial house of Iatmul-men, women’s figures are kept similar to this in the upper house where cultural objects are kept. The figure sits at the top of the ladder that one uses to get upstairs with his face to the interior of the house. Thus, to get upstairs, one must pass through the figure’s barred leg. The figure represents the mythical first woman.

Location:

Papua New Guinea

Format:

image

Collections:

Museum of Ethnography

Content partner:

Museum of Ethnography

Availability:

Not specified