{"id":"NGUINEA-012","label":"Mairipepia wooden rhombe","people_or_site":"Mairipepia village, Gulf Province","country_current":"Papua New Guinea","historic_region":"Gulf Province / Mairipepia village","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"","source_term":"Rhombe","source_language":"English","object_description":"Oblong wooden board, 43 x 8.5 x 0.5 cm, engraved and painted on the front only; Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris.","function_summary":"Function not recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"QUAI_BRANLY_305040","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/#/objet/305040","page_or_plate":"Quai Branly object 305040 / inventory 72.1993.1.32","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative Mairipepia / Gulf Province anchor; exact village coordinate not independently locked.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A face peers out from under the arrow-shaped head of this board from Mairipepia, a village of the Papuan Gulf, and below it a chain of interlaced hearts runs down the blade in zigzag frames picked out in white. It matches what the missionary J. H. Holmes found in the Ipi and Namau villages of the Gulf, where the roarer was usually carved at its widest end with the suggestion of a human face.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, object 305040, inventory 72.1993.1.32","url":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=72.1993.1.32","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013024855/https://collections.quaibranly.fr/?action=search&field=/Record/ObjectNumber&label=N%C2%B0%20de%20gestion&value=72.1993.1.32"},{"citation":"J. H. Holmes, In Primitive New Guinea (1924), p. 188","url":"https://archive.org/details/inprimitivenewgu0000holm"}],"source_citations":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, object 305040, inventory 72.1993.1.32; J. H. Holmes, In Primitive New Guinea (1924), p. 188","source_display":"Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, object 305040, inventory 72.1993.1.32; J. H. Holmes, In Primitive New Guinea (1924), p. 188","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"Oblong wooden board, 43 x 8.5 x 0.5 cm, engraved and painted on the front only; Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris.","function_display":"Function not recorded.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"mairipepia","display_name":"Mairipepia wooden rhombe","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NGUINEA-012_mqb_72-1993-1-32_mairipepia.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NGUINEA-012_mqb_72-1993-1-32_mairipepia_thumb.jpg","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac","license":"N/A","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/#/objet/305040","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Mairipepia rhombe: linked heart-spirals in lime-whitened zigzag frames beneath a carved face.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/NGUINEA-012_mqb_72-1993-1-31_mairipepia.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NGUINEA-012_mqb_72-1993-1-31_mairipepia_thumb.jpg","alt":"A second blade from Mairipepia, acquired with this one: painted white and rust-red zigzags, cross motifs and a stylized face, with cord tied at one end and laid along an edge.","credit":"© Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac","license":"N/A","source_page":"https://collections.quaibranly.fr/#/objet/305039","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A second blade from Mairipepia, acquired with this one."}]},"slug":"nguinea-012-mairipepia-village-gulf-province"}