ASMAT Bis Pole PreColumbian Comparable examples in the collection

Comparable examples in the collection of the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

paired with a longhaired full-bodied costume comprised of bear skin

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Seattle Times critic Deloris Tarzan Ament described him as "the Dean of Northwest Painters"

ASMAT Bis Pole PreColumbian Comparable examples in the collectionAsmat Ancestor Pole, Bis or Bisj Pole, carved wood, pigment, organic material, 14 ft H The Asmat honored their dead with feasts and rituals, which both commemorated the deceased and reminded the living to avenge their deaths. The towering Asmat "bis" poles were made for these funeral feasts. The basic form of the bis is an openwork pole incorporating several ancestor figures and a winglike projection that represents the pole's phallus. In Asmat