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品名（中）	祖先人物
品名（英）	Ancestor Figure
入馆年号	1979年，1979.206.1561
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	巴布亚新几内亚, 东塞皮克省, Yamok 村（Papua New Guinea, East Sepik Province, Yamok village）
分类	木雕（Wood-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 72 x 宽 12 3/4 x 深 9 7/8 英寸 (182.9 x 32.4 x 25.1厘米)
介绍（中）	新几内亚塞皮克河中游地区的萨沃斯人分为许多氏族，每个氏族都与特定的祖先和图腾物种有关。这些祖先和图腾生物由保存在男人礼仪房屋中的木制雕像代表。像这样的木制人物代表了一类强大而危险的祖先，称为wan或waken，特定氏族拥有的每个人物都以重要的氏族祖先命名。这个人物的名字叫Minjemtimi，据说有十代人的历史。据说它是在夸隆盖村制作的。当邻近的Yamok村的战士袭击夸隆盖时，据说这个人物已经复活并与入侵者作战，直到被长矛击中，长矛折断了左臂（伤口仍然可见作为修复）。受伤的明杰姆蒂米倒在地上，变回一个被袭击者带走的木头人物。在Yamok，这个人物被Ainggun氏族保存在Wolembi小村庄的礼仪屋中。腹部的标记代表公鸡头由一段肠子连接，类似于在初始Sawos男人身上的仪式划痕。
介绍（英）	The Sawos people of the Middle Sepik River region of New Guinea are divided into a number of clans, each of which is associated with specific ancestors and totemic species. These ancestral and totemic beings are represented by wooden figures kept in the men's ceremonial houses. Wooden figures such as this represent a category of powerful and dangerous ancestral beings called wan or waken and each figure owned by a specific clan is named for an important clan ancestor. This figure which bears the name Minjemtimi and is reputed to be ten generations old. It is said to have been made in the village of Kwalunggei. When warriors from neighboring Yamok village raided Kwalunggei, the figure is said to have come to life and fought the invaders until hit by a spear, which broke off its left arm (the wound is still visible as a repair). The wounded Minjemtimi fell to the ground and turned back into a wooden figure that was carried off by the raiders. In Yamok the figure was kept by the Ainggun clan in a ceremonial house in the hamlet of Wolembi. The marks on the abdomen represent rooster heads joined by a length of intestine and are similar to the ritual scarifications made on the bodies of initiated Sawos men.