Asmat ancestor skull "ndambirkus"
Ref : Asmat 13
Ancestor skull, the lower
jawbone tightly attached to the skull with natural fiber strings, the nose pierced with giant boar's tusks and the
eye-sockets filled with beeswax and inlaid with the grey seeds of job's-tear grass (Coix lacryma-jobi) while red seeds of the
crab's eye vine (Abrus precatorius) marks the pupils , a hat of natural fiber decorated with cockatoo's feathers.Estimated age : 1950-1960
