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Ceremonial stool or «orator's pulpit»
Iatmul, Mittlerer Sepik, Papua-Neuguinea

wood, middle brown patina, dyed with red and yellow ochre, black paint, a circular, vaulted base, carved with a free standing male and female figure, arranged back to back, with raised arms supporting a massive seat on top, both wearing grass fibre skirts, the male adorned with typical breast ornament and the female with earrings, expressive faces, painted in black and white, the eyes inset with cowrie snails, coiffure of human hair, pressed into a clay-like mass, slightly dam., minor missing parts (coiffure of the male figure), hairline cracks and fissures (base, seat);
figural stools belong to the most important sanctuaries among the people of the Middle Sepik. Despite, or maybe even because of that, it is not clear, what precisely was their meaning. They were kept in ritual houses and where used as orator pulpits, above all in cases of conflict. The respective orator strikes the top of the lectern with a bundle of leafes, in order to give rhythm to their speech or lay stress on certain points of his discourse.
H: 86 cm; D: 40 cm, (4896/029)

Provenance:
Coll. Dr. Georg Aumann, Coburg, Germany

Lit.:
Aumann, Georg, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Neu Guinea, Ausst.kat., Naturwissenschaftliches Museum Coburg 1986, p. 87
Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. I, Köln 1995, p. 222

Ceremonial stool or «orator's pulpit»
Iatmul, Mittlerer Sepik, Papua-Neuguinea

wood, middle brown patina, dyed with red and yellow ochre, black paint, a circular, vaulted base, carved with a free standing male and female figure, arranged back to back, with raised arms supporting a massive seat on top, both wearing grass fibre skirts, the male adorned with typical breast ornament and the female with earrings, expressive faces, painted in black and white, the eyes inset with cowrie snails, coiffure of human hair, pressed into a clay-like mass, slightly dam., minor missing parts (coiffure of the male figure), hairline cracks and fissures (base, seat);
figural stools belong to the most important sanctuaries among the people of the Middle Sepik. Despite, or maybe even because of that, it is not clear, what precisely was their meaning. They were kept in ritual houses and where used as orator pulpits, above all in cases of conflict. The respective orator strikes the top of the lectern with a bundle of leafes, in order to give rhythm to their speech or lay stress on certain points of his discourse.
H: 86 cm; D: 40 cm, (4896/029)

Provenance:
Coll. Dr. Georg Aumann, Coburg, Germany

Lit.:
Aumann, Georg, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Neu Guinea, Ausst.kat., Naturwissenschaftliches Museum Coburg 1986, p. 87
Meyer, Anthony J.P., Ozeanische Kunst, Vol. I, Köln 1995, p. 222