A North Western Asmat ancestral pole, New Guinea Stylised, polychrome male figure, partially in relief and in openwork. Height 286 cm. Ancestral poles were suspended from the roof beams already during the construction of a longhouse and are an important component of the Asmat faith. historic, historical, Indonesian archipelago, Indonesia, Far East, Asia, Asian, ethnology, ethnicity, ethnic, tribal, object, objects, stills, clipping, clippings, cut out, cut-out, cut-outs, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available

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Photo credit: © INTERFOTO / History / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ancestral, archipelago, asia, asian, asmat, clipping, clippings, cut, cut-, cut-outs, east, ethnic, ethnicity, ethnology, guinea, indonesia, indonesian, north, object, objects, pole, polychrome, stills, stylised, tribal, western