Kambot

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Featherwork panel, feathers tied to a wooden panel. From the Kambot people, Keram River, East Sepik province, Papua New Guinea. In the Museum of Ethnology, Berlin.

Kambot

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The Sepik River regions
The Kambot tribe of the Keram River, on the other hand, combined sculpture and painting in complex, ambitious designs to decorate their ceremonial houses. The houses’ long, horizontal gables were filled with painted compositions of an ancestral hero with his wives and animals. Paintings also adorned…
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The Kambot tribe of the Keram River, on the other hand, combined sculpture and painting in complex, ambitious designs to decorate their ceremonial houses. The houses’ long, horizontal gables were filled with painted compositions of an ancestral hero with his wives and animals. Paintings also adorned…
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