Specifications
- Height: 35 cm.
- Material: wood
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- Gender:
- Indigenous name:kairenanu or Uplera haire
- Price realised:
Provenance
Rautenstrauch Joest Museum
Publications
Vatter, Ernst (1926), Religiöse Plastik der Naturvölker, p. 169, ill. 99; Ref.: Kuhnt-Saptodewo, Sri a.o. (2012), Maluku, Sharing Cultural Memory, 68-69, ill 73.
Exhibitions
Additional information
Top of a cotton flag that was raised during the Porka-ritual celebrating fecundity. Actually two flags were raised a male and a female next to each other on the islands west: Luang, Babar, Leti .
Thereb is another wooden flag-top in this museum showing the same facial features and most probably made by the same hand.