Title: Een voorouderpaal uit Yepem, Asmatgebied, Nieuw-Guinea
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.