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Information about the exhibit
- Ethnic affiliation: Papuans
- Place of creation: Indonesia
- Geographic location of creation: West Papua, Baliem Valley
- Material: shells, boar tusks, natural rope
- Technique: handmade production, weaving
- Size: length – 23 cm when folded
- Date of creation: 2003
- Collector: private individual Pale Sofiya Evgenievna (1976-2024)
- Period of use: 2000s
- Use: decoration
- Condition: good
- Analogues from the Kunstkamera collection funds: MAE № 736-191
- Keywords: Indonesia, peoples of Australia and Oceania, Papuans, West Papua, Baliem Valley
Historical and cultural commentary
In New Guinea, pigs play a key role. Boar tusks have sacred significance and symbolize strength of spirit and body, prosperity, and fertility.
