Specifications

• Length: 155 cm; Height: 50 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: kawa péré

Provenance

Former Amsterdam collection, early 1980s.

Publications

Ref. Molnar, Andrea K. (1999), ‘Threshold of a Ngada Ancestress House’ in Douglas Newton (ed.) Arts of the South Seas, Island Southeast Asia Melanesia, Polynesia Micronesia. The Collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller, 107

Additional information

‘The kawa péré is an extensively carved wooden board which serves as an elaborate threshold leading from the veranda to the inner sanctum of an origin or named house or inside the ancestress house, which is a small-scale version of the origin house without the veranda.’ (Molnar)