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SUD DE LA PAPOUASIE OCCIDENTALE, IRIAN JAYA, INDONÉSIE POPULATION ASMAT
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SUD DE LA PAPOUASIE OCCIDENTALE, IRIAN JAYA, INDONÉSIE POPULATION ASMAT
Bisj pole in the shape of a sexual
character The pole, located in front of the men's house, evokes the recent dead and reminds us of the need to avenge them by headhunting, because for the Asmat, death never comes naturally, it is due to a violent act or a spell cast by an enemy.
Therefore, to restore the balance threatened by the death of a clan member, it is necessary to conduct an assault on an enemy village and bring back heads.
The pole is made from the trunk and the aerial root of the sago palm.
When the carving is finished, the tree cut down, as if one were beheading his enemy, from which a red sap similar to the enemy's blood flows, is planted upside down, in front of the house of men, so that the carved root, tsjemen (the penis of the statue) forms the top.
Before it was collected by Europeans, it was intended to be taken back to the mangroves after the ceremony and rot there to allow fertility again.
It is in this notion of restitution of a social order that the purpose of the Bisj poles is placed.
Height 141 cm (with base: 184 cm) (Carved and hollowed out sago wood)
Bisj pole in the shape of a sexual
character The pole, located in front of the men's house, evokes the recent dead and reminds us of the need to avenge them by headhunting, because for the Asmat, death never comes naturally, it is due to a violent act or a spell cast by an enemy.
Therefore, to restore the balance threatened by the death of a clan member, it is necessary to conduct an assault on an enemy village and bring back heads.
The pole is made from the trunk and the aerial root of the sago palm.
When the carving is finished, the tree cut down, as if one were beheading his enemy, from which a red sap similar to the enemy's blood flows, is planted upside down, in front of the house of men, so that the carved root, tsjemen (the penis of the statue) forms the top.
Before it was collected by Europeans, it was intended to be taken back to the mangroves after the ceremony and rot there to allow fertility again.
It is in this notion of restitution of a social order that the purpose of the Bisj poles is placed.
Height 141 cm (with base: 184 cm) (Carved and hollowed out sago wood)