Sepik
Subtitle: arts de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
By: sous la direction de Philippe Peltier, Markus Schindlbeck, et de Christian Kaufmann
Contributors: Musée du quai Branly
Publisher: Skira
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9782370740250; 9782357440678
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Art; Exhibitions; Papua New Guinean Art
Description: "This exhibition presents a collection of 230 sculptures linked to the Sepik Valley, a large swampland in the north of Papua New Guinea. Since the first millennium B.C. this area has sheltered peoples who live on the banks of or in areas close to the Sepik River and its tributaries. The exhibition gradually unveils a major figure common to all cultures of the "lower" and "middle" Sepik: the founding ancestor(s). In Sepik societies, the figure of the ancestor does not immediately show itself. Instead it is gradually understood in all its complexity. The exhibition trail allows visitors to apprehend the multiple variants under which these ancestral figures manifest themselves, from their public forms to their "hidden" forms."--Museum website.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition at musée du quai Branly from October 27, 2015-February 7, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346) and index.