Specifications

• Height:  cm
• Material: wood
• Position: 
• Gender: 
• Indigenous name: yamate

Provenance

Loed van Bussel, The Hague, 1960s.

Publications

Ref.: Smidt, Dirk (2003), Kamoro Art, Tradition and innovation in a New Guinea culture.

Additional information

These boards come in two variations: one with a closed panel and one with an open-worked decoration. The present one has a pointed ens below by which the shield was driven in the ground during the emakame feast, celebrating life and death. The panel is subdivided in three planes by means of two horizontal lines. 

These boards were given the name of an ancestor.