1 Bragge Material Culture Collection The Bragge Collection - Material Culture The material artefacts from this collection are curated by the Discipline of Anthropology, Material Culture Collection (College of Arts, Society and Education), and housed in The Cairns Institute. To enquire about these items, please contact Professor Rosita Henry. (
[email protected]) Accession Name of Object Primary Description Old Dimensions Cultural Cultural Provenance Shelf Contextual Notes No Object Type Classification Registration Category Group Locality Location Number 2018.02.001.a Finial Artefact Architectual Carved wooden finial from Haus 1.a L2130 x W300 Melanesian Kanganaman Middle Sepik FS.2 The Worimbi haus tambaran was declared to be a element Tambaran (traditional ancestral x D270mm Village Province, Papua national monument under the 'National Cultural worship house) at Worimbi (aka New Guinea Property. (Preservation) Act 1965'. This Worimbi Warimbi) in Kanganaman Village, was severely damaged in an earthquake and Latmul area, Middle Sepik Province, inspected in 1980 by Soroi Marepo Eoe (b.1954) Papua New Guinea. Represents a the Assistant Curator Anthropology (1979-1983), young woman. Purchased by Laurie National Museum Papua New Guinea. The finials Bragge from Elders of Kanganaman were undamaged and saved by village Elders and Village. See full crocodile story and offered for sale with a export permit issued. The notes. Elders stated that it is 'important that the old [finials] replaced item then be removed from the area, as for old and new to be together creates spiritual conflict similar to when a man tried to bring a second wife into his home'. The finial figures represent a story of a young woman and an old woman who was known as the jealous axe.