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Abelam

Ancestral Figure

Abelam, 1899-1998

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Abelam

Ancestral Figure

Abelam, 1899-1998

Physical Qualities Wood, pigments, 73 1/4 x 8 11/16 x 7 1/16 in. (186 x 22 x 18 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Elizabeth Heffernan, Washington, D.C.
Object Number 1990.177
Pink, white and yellow pigments
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift 1990; Elizabeth Heffernan
Coupaye, Ludovic. Growing artefacts, displaying relationships: yams, art and technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea. Vol. 2. Berghahn Books, 2013.

Losche, Diane. "What Do Abelam Images Want from Us?: Plato's Cave and Kwatbi's Belly." The Australian journal of anthropology 8, no. 2 (1997): 35-49.

Losche, Diane. "The Sepik gaze: Iconographic interpretation of Abelam form." Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice 38 (1995): 47-60.

Forge, Anthony. “Style and Meaning in Sepik Art,” in Primitive Art and Society, ed. Anthony Forge, 169-192. London: Oxford Univ. Press.1973.

Forge, Anthony.“Art and Environment in the Sepik,” in Art and Aesthetics in Primitive Societies , ed. C. Jopling, 290-314. NY: E. P. Dutton. 1971

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