Authority and Ornament: Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea

Abelam Aibom aripa artistic baba Bahinemo bamboo Blackwater River Boiken Bühler canoe carved cassowary cassowary feathers clan cm Middle Sepik cm Southern margins cm Upper Sepik collection Exhibited Musée collection Function identical crocodile cultural decorated Exhibited in Basel female figure FIGURE Wood flutes GABLE MASK Guinea Hauser-Schäublin hook figures hunting Iatmul individual initiation rites Kapriman Kararau Kaufmann Kelm Kwoma Lower Sepik men's ceremonial house men's house Middle Sepik Private Middle Sepik region Middle Sepik Übersee-Museum Museum für Völkerkunde Museum für Volkskunde mythical nassa Neuchâtel Newton objects ornament painting pigment H plaited primal Private collection Exhibited Private collection Function Regional styles ritual Roesicke sago Sago spathe Sawos Schuster Schweizerisches Museum Sepik area Sepik art Sepik Private collection Sepik River Sepik Übersee-Museum Bremen SHIELD Wood SKULL slit gongs Speyer stylistic SUSPENSION HOOK Wood tion traces of pigment Upper Karawari River village Collected Völkerkunde und Schweizerisches Western Iatmul Wirz Yimar