Maprik District, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Culture or time period:
Abelam
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ancestor figures (devotional objects)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1964
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1964-1965 #71: University at Emerson, Lytton Center, Lytton Savings and Loan Association (March 26, 1965–June 16, 1965) and S1990-1991 #23: Blackhawk Museums (March 20, 1991–August 16, 1994)