女性身材 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	女性身材
品名（英）	Female Figure
入馆年号	1978年，1978.412.857
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 1500 - 公元 1900
创作地区	巴布亚新几内亚（Papua New Guinea）
分类	木雕（Wood-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 67 英寸 × 宽 16 1/2 英寸 × 深 5 英寸 (170.2 × 41.9 × 12.7 厘米) 其他: 16 英寸 × 2 1/2 英寸 (40.6 × 6.4 厘米) 深 9 in with mount
介绍（中）	Inyai-Ewa和邻近的Korewori河上游（塞皮克河的南部支流）的古老木雕是最早幸存下来的美拉尼西亚木雕。这些人物保存在岩石庇护所中，保护他们免受元素的影响，主要创作于 16 至 19 世纪之间。它们以多种形式出现，描绘了各种超自然生物。宽阔、扁平的女性形象有时被确定为帮助塑造世界的两个原始姐妹的代表，或者是特定氏族的女性祖先或创始人。两条腿的男性形象也可能描绘原始氏族的祖先。最丰富的Inyai-Ewa雕刻是独腿男性形象，被称为aripa。在主人生前被保存在男人的礼仪屋中，并在他死后放置在岩石庇护所中作为纪念，aripa代表居住在图像中的灵魂，并充当狩猎助手，帮助捕获野猪和食火鸡（大型鸵鸟状鸟类）等猎物。
介绍（英）	The ancient wood sculptures of the Inyai-Ewa and neighboring groups of the upper Korewori River, a southern tributary of the Sepik, are the earliest Melanesian woodcarvings to survive in any substantial numbers. Kept in rock shelters, which protected them from the elements, the figures were primarily created between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. They occur in several forms and portray a variety of supernatural beings. Broad, flat female images are, at times, identified as representations of two primordial sisters who helped to shape the world or as the female ancestors or founders of particular clans. Two-legged male figures also likely portray primordial clan ancestors. The most abundant Inyai-Ewa carvings are the one-legged male figures, known as aripa. Kept in the men’s ceremonial house during the owner’s life and placed in a rock shelter as a memorial after his death, aripa represented spirits that resided within the images and served as hunting helpers, aiding in the capture of game such as wild pigs and cassowaries (large ostrich-like birds).