FMNH 181128.C(1)

  • 181128 emak-cem, ridge pole, side roof poles, and ladder from men's initiation hut; Asmat House [exhibit]
    Photographer: Diane Alexander White : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Asmat House [exhibit] Set up in Stanley Field Hall.
  • 181128 emak-cem, ridge pole, side roof poles, and ladder from men's initiation hut; Asmat House [exhibit]
    Photographer: Diane Alexander White : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Asmat House [exhibit] Set up in Stanley Field Hall.
  • 181128 emak-cem, ridge pole, side roof poles, and ladder from men's initiation hut; Asmat House [exhibit]
    Photographer: Diane Alexander White : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Asmat House [exhibit] Set up in Stanley Field Hall.
  • 181128 emak-cem, ridge pole, side roof poles, and ladder from men's initiation hut; Asmat House [exhibit]
    Photographer: Diane Alexander White : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Asmat House [exhibit] Set up in Stanley Field Hall.
  • 181128 emak-cem, ridge pole, side roof poles, and ladder from men's initiation hut; Asmat House [exhibit]
    Photographer: John Weinstein : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Asmat House [exhibit] Set up in Stanley Field Hall.
  • 181128 emak-cem, ridge pole, side roof poles, and ladder from men's initiation hut; Asmat House [exhibit]
    Photographer: Diane Alexander White : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Asmat House [exhibit] Set up in Stanley Field Hall.
  • 181128 emak-cem, ridge pole, side roof poles, and ladder from men's initiation hut; Asmat House [exhibit]
    Photographer: Diane Alexander White : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Asmat House [exhibit] Set up in Stanley Field Hall.
  • 181128 emak-cem, ridge pole, side roof poles, and ladder from men's initiation hut; Asmat House [exhibit]
    Photographer: Diane Alexander White : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Asmat House [exhibit] Set up in Stanley Field Hall.
  • 181128 emak-cem, ridge pole, side roof poles, and ladder from men's initiation hut; Asmat House [exhibit]
    Photographer: John Weinstein : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Asmat House [exhibit] Set up in Stanley Field Hall.
  • 181128 emak-cem, ridge pole, side roof poles, and ladder from men's initiation hut; Asmat House [exhibit]
    Photographer: John Weinstein : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Asmat House [exhibit] Set up in Stanley Field Hall. In background, in front of Hall 3, is the mounted [stuffed] Grizzly Bear from Marshall Field & Co. department store used as a "prop"
  • 181128 emak-cem, ridge pole, side roof poles, and ladder from men's initiation hut; Asmat House [exhibit]
    Photographer: John Weinstein : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Asmat House [exhibit] Set up in Stanley Field Hall.
  • 181128 emak-cem, ridge pole, side roof poles, and ladder from men's initiation hut; Asmat House [exhibit]
    Photographer: John Weinstein : Field Museum of Natural History - Photography Division
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Asmat House [exhibit] Set up in Stanley Field Hall.
  • Asmat performers
    Photographer: James Balodimas
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Asmat performers in Stanley Field Hall
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    Scanner: Mr. Christopher J. Philipp : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: scan of catalog card
Catalog Number: 181128.C(1)
Description: side roof pole from men's initiation hut
Materials: wood, rattan, paint or pigment, metal wire
Cultural Attribution: Asmat
Locality: Pacific, Malay Archipelago, New Guinea, Indonesia, Papua
Accession Number: [3801] Asmat Progress and Development Foundation (Gift)
Accession Year: 1991
Other Numbers: 10/4, 10/4/1, 10/4/2, 10/4/3, 10/4/4, 970338.
Country: Indonesia
Province/State: Papua
Collector/Source: Asmat Progress and Development Foundation, Asmat Progress and Development Foundation
EMu IRN: 1373791
GUID: a95af455-a0dd-444f-aa9b-7f3b4947d3f2

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