Kulap
Traditional funerary sculptures of New Ireland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about Pacific statuettes. For the typhoons, see Tropical Storm Kulap.
Kulap figurines of limestone or chalk were made in Melanesia.[1] The small funerary sculptures from New Ireland were associated with death rituals.[2] They are typical in the hilly Punam region of the New Ireland province in Papua New Guinea of the Bismarck Archipelago.[3] They were believed to contain the soul of the deceased person whom they were meant to represent, and would be ritually smashed once their usefulness or the period of mourning was over. In more recent years, some have been sold in their intact forms to Westerners, particularly to German administrators.[3][4]
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Kulap | |
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Material | Chalk or Limestone |
Discovered | Southern part of the New Ireland |
Present location | Found in many museums in Berlin, New York, Australia and Africa. |
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