Great Interior Design

Do you need a references of Papua art to make an interior design? Maybe you can look some collection that I recomend for you. If you are people who like primitive thing and intereted to creat a little papua art in your home, you can start from this following post. although maybe you can’t get the original one, you can get the semblant one, it’s pretty nice, I think.

Kambot

Kambot (Tin Dama) people, Keram River, Lower Sepik region, Papua New Guinea.
Kambot house posts portrayed founding ancestors. This work may depict Mobul, an important figure from Kambot oral tradition, or his brother Goyen. The imagery of the figure’s head can be interpreted in several ways. The facial features form a double image in which the elongated eyes form the arms of a second, smaller figure whose head appears at the top as a red circle. The nostrils represent the hands of this smaller figure, which grasp the beaklike nose, possibly representing a sacred flute. Sacred flutes were secret objects, so this dual imagery likely carried hidden meaning, known only to initiated men.

Ancestoral Carvings

Ancestoral Carvings in the Men’s Spirit House in Parembei Village, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea.

Hukilau Collections

On the return trip, we stopped at our Papua New Guinea collector’s house to see the new shipment. Here are a few shields.Hukilau

Clamp Stands

These stands are basically similar to the rod stands and “Y” stands in that they have a central rod that then forks into one or more “C” or “V” clamps that clamp around the edges of thin masks (especially those from Papua New Guinea) or shields and house boards. We usually craft these stamps so that the piece fits into the base of the stand and then a top piece is inserted, locking the piece into place. No drilling required! The photo to the left shows the BACK of the stand. To see more examples of this and other custom stands, see this site(via).

Nativity Scenes

This one was made in Indonesia (Papua I think) from a coconut shell.

Figure Yipwon

Yimam people, Korewori River, Middle Sepik region, Papua New Guinea Wood
Kept within the men’s ceremonial house, the distinctive hook figures (yipwon) of the Yimam people of the Korewori River region in northeast New Guinea formerly played a central role in hunting and warfare. Depicting powerful spirits, the images served as vessels into which the spirits were called before a hunt or raid and presented with offerings. The yipwon then went forth during the night to slay the souls of the game or human enemies, enabling the men to easily kill the actual animals or enemies the following day. If a yipwon was successful, the men showed their gratitude by offering it a portion of the game or smearing it with the victims’ blood. If it failed, the figure was neglected or discarded.