ASMAT, Kapubaten, Wood and fibre substitute crane. Hard wood, pigments, fibres. Replacement skull linked to initiations and carved to replace a destroyed or lost skull. Initiates originally lived with the skull of an ancestor or enemy. They would spend several weeks with this skull, then during the final phase of initiation, the young initiate would hold this skull (sit on it?), on a pirogue that symbolically took them to the land of the ancestors. During this initiatory journey, the young man Dim 26x17 cm.