File:Amulet Figure, Papua New Guinea, Brücke Museum Berlin, 64964, view c.jpg
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Amulet Figure, Yuat area, Sepik, Papua New Guinea, 19th–20th century, view from the left
Summary
Object
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English: once known creator
Deutsch: einst bekannte*r Urheber*in |
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| Description |
Deutsch: Amulettfigur
English: Amulet Figure |
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| Date | from 19th century until 20th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | wood, plant fiber (Q20026824) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 11 cm (4.3 in); width: 2.6 cm (1 in); depth: 3 cm (1.1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
H 3 |
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| Place of creation | Papua New Guinea (Q691) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
transferred to Karl und Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Stiftung from Karl Schmidt-Rottluff |
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| Notes |
English: In the folk law of many parts of the Sepik the bird is regarded as the ancestral spirit of the village, having given birth of the first humans. In figures such as the one seen here therefore, the head very often depicts that of a bird, with the skull elongated and adorned with tufts of hair, for this one it is just plain carving. Similarly the nose is extended to represent the beak. (Grace Vele)
Deutsch: Für die Bevölkerung an vielen Orten entlang des Sepik gilt der Vogel als Ahnengeist des Dorfes, der die ersten Menschen geboren hat. Bei Figuren, wie der hier gezeigten, wird daher sehr oft der Kopf eines Vogels dargestellt, wobei der Schädel verlängert und mit Haarbüscheln geschmückt ist. In diesem Fall handelt es sich um eine einfache Schnitzerei. (Grace Vele)
Tok Pisin: Dispela kavin ya ol man blo Yuat insait lo East Sepik i bin mekim lo strongpela diwai na bus rop, ol i bin mekim na i kamapim olsem sprit blo ol tumbuna line blo ol i bin dai pinis longpela taim i bin i go pinis.
Hed blo dispela kavin i kamapim osem hed blo pisin bikos, insait lo Sepik rigen,pisin em i olsem tumbuna man blo olgeta man i bin dai pinis na tu ol tin olsem ol pinis ol i bin kamap lo dispela graun na kamapim tumbuna blo olgeta man lo dispela graun. |
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Photograph
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English: Amulet Figure, Yuat area, Sepik, Papua New Guinea, 19th–20th century, view from the left  |
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| Source | BrückeMuseumBerlin | |||
| Author | Nick Ash, Berlin | |||
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The estate of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, owned by the Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation at the Brücke Museum, contains his collection of around 100 sculptures and objects with colonial backgrounds. The Brücke artist himself never travelled outside Europe and, to the best of current knowledge, bought these objects in the art trade and from private owners from the 1910s onwards. The collection includes ritual and everyday objects, alongside souvenirs for the Western market. The way they were perceived underwent changes: they came to be seen as objects of art and decoration. Little is known of their origins, the circumstances of their acquisition, or the historical and current importance of the objects. Most of them originate from Germany’s former colonies, thus referring directly to German Expressionists’ entanglements in the often unlawful appropriation of material culture in colonially occupied lands. More
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