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品名（中）	众议院议员
品名（英）	House Post
入馆年号	1978年，1978.412.842a
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1800 - 公元 1900
创作地区	印度尼西亚, 巴布亚省（伊里安查亚）（Indonesia, Papua Province (Irian Jaya)）
分类	木质建筑（Wood-Architectural）
尺寸	高 48 英寸 × 宽 10 ft. 10 英寸 × 深 48 英寸 (121.9 × 330.2 × 121.9 厘米) 其他 (13'): 高 13 ft. × 深 4 英寸 × 1宽 8 英寸 (396.2 × 10.2 × 45.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	新几内亚西北部的森塔尼人居住在建在森塔尼湖（一个大型内陆湖）水面上的村庄里。Sentani房屋建在木桩上，并通过高架木板路连接，使居民可以在村庄周围行走。直到1920年代初，大多数Sentani村庄中最壮观的建筑是世袭酋长的房屋。这些房屋装饰华丽，在支撑屋顶和地板的桩上雕刻建筑。雕刻有两种基本类型：高大的Y形柱子，例如支撑中央屋顶横梁的当前作品，以及在支撑地板的桩上雕刻的人物形象。像所有仙谷屋顶支架一样，这项工作是由一棵倒置的树制成的。最初，上部树干沉入湖床，而喇叭形的根部在顶部形成了翼状突起，屋顶梁位于其交界处。除了结构考虑之外，树的倒置可能是指森塔尼宗教中的宇宙树，它从天到地向下生长。竖井装饰着S形螺旋，可能代表在地球和天空之间盘旋的云。镂空的翅膀包含程式化的蜥蜴，它们向内爬向树干。
介绍（英）	The Sentani people of northwest New Guinea live in villages built over the waters of Lake Sentani, a large inland lake. Sentani houses are constructed on wood pilings and are linked by raised boardwalks, allowing the residents to walk around the village. Until the early 1920s, the most imposing structures in most Sentani villages were the houses of the hereditary chiefs. These houses were lavishly decorated with architectural carvings on the pilings that supported the roof and floor.The carvings were of two basic types: tall Y-shaped posts, such as the present work, which supported the central roof beam, and human images carved atop the pilings that supported the floor. Like all Sentani roof supports, this work is made from a single inverted tree. Originally, the upper trunk was sunk into the lake bed, while the flaring roots formed the wing-like projections at the top, at whose junction the roof beam rested. Beyond structural considerations, the inversion of the tree may refer to the cosmic tree in Sentani religion, which grew downward from the heavens to the earth. The shaft is adorned with S-shaped spirals, possibly representing clouds hovering between the earth and sky. The openwork wings incorporate stylized lizards, which crawl inward toward the trunk.