Een voorouderpaal uit Yepem, Asmatgebied, Nieuw-Guinea
By: Adriaan Claerhout.
Series: Verhandelingen van het Etnografisch Museum van de Stad Antwerpen ; nr. 2/1975
Publisher: Etnografisch Museum
Published: 1975
Place of publication: [Antwerpen
Language: dut
Number of pages: 21
Description: A recent acquistion of the Ethnographical Museum (Antwerp) is an ancestor pole from Yepem, Asmat, New Guinea. The pole was made for a bis ceremony at the village of Yepem, situated just south of the Flamingo Bay in the territory of Asmat, now known as the Indonesian province of West Papua. Essentially a bis is a memorial, depicting specified ancestors whose death still has to be avenged.