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Objects from Ambunti region, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
Objects from Ambunti region, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
Object Number 2004.24.31404
Display Title Objects from Ambunti region, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
Descriptions
Object Description Objects from Ambunti region, Sepik River. Drum, shield, dish, animal figure, and stool typical of objects found in art house Tambaran.
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Household
  • Furnishing
Subject
  • Dish
  • Stool
  • Warfare
  • Shield
  • Drum
  • Weaponry
  • Animal Figure
Department Photographic
Date 1929-1989
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Papuan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / Sepik
Additional Geographic Terms Ambunti
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 5.72 cm (2 1/4 in.)

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Stool, food dish, drums, shields, stool found in Haus Tambarans
39-22-70/10859.1.142 Stool, food dish, drums, shields, stool found in Haus Tambarans
Sepik
Village, Malu, Sepik River region
2004.24.31399B Village, Malu, Sepik River region
Photographic
Papua New Guinea
Village, Malu, Sepik River region
2004.24.31399 Village, Malu, Sepik River region
Photographic
Papua New Guinea
Image Not Available for New Guinea; Alexishaven, Madang, Manam, Sio, Sepik River Region, Trobriand Islan
39-22-70/10859 New Guinea; Alexishaven, Madang, Manam, Sio, Sepik River Region, Trobriand Islan
New Guinea
Policeman beside drum at haus Tambaran
39-22-70/10859.1.191 Policeman beside drum at haus Tambaran
Tambonum
Open-air structure with roof
2004.24.31405 Open-air structure with roof
Tambonum
Tambaran or Bachelor's house
2004.24.31400 Tambaran or Bachelor's house
Yentja
B/W image: Storm over the Sepik River in Angoram, East Sepik
2015.5.26.36 B/W image: Storm over the Sepik River in Angoram, East Sepik
Art 2-D
Papua New Guinea
Person in haus tambaran
39-22-70/10859.1.162 Person in haus tambaran
Tambonum
Haus Tambaran
39-22-70/10859.1.175 Haus Tambaran
Sepik
Carved drums under building
39-22-70/10859.1.178 Carved drums under building
Sepik
Haus Tambaran
39-22-70/10859.1.211 Haus Tambaran
Sepik