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Gancho para crânios

19th–early 20th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 353
Antigamente os povos kerewa, no sudeste de Nova Guiné, eram caçadores de cabeças, e o objeto mais sagrado para eles era a agiba (gancho de crânios), uma escultura de madeira na qual se exibem crânios humanos pendurados em espigões verticais que saem da base. Cada agiba representava um espírito, supostamente revelado ao escultor em um sonho. Os homens kerewa viviam em casas comunais grandes em que cada clã ou subclã tinha seu próprio cubículo com um altar contendo uma ou mais agibas e outros objetos sagrados. Símbolo da vitalidade e do poder do clã, a agiba presidia sobre o acúmulo de crânios recolhidos por seus membros.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Título: Gancho para crânios
  • Data: Século XIX–início do século XX
  • Geografia: Papua Nova Guiné, região do golfo da Papua, rio Omati, povoado de Pai'ia'a
  • Cultura: Etnia Kerewa
  • Meio: Madeira, pintura
  • Dimensões: 141,9 cm de altura
  • Linha de créditos: Coleção Comemorativa Michael C. Rockefeller, doação de Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1969
  • Número de acesso: 1978.412.796
  • Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

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