Tools
Painted panel
- Title
- [Painted panel] [realia].
- Format
- Realia
- Published
- [1945-1955]
- Description
- 1 panel : paint on wood, col. ; 18 x 146 x 2 cm.
- Notes
- Title supplied by cataloger. Location: Display, 3rd floor. Place of origin: [Palau Islands (South Pacific)]
- Summary
- Rafter panel. Images read sequentially from left to right. A sexually starved widow's sons tell her about a giant who has a large penis and lives on a nearby island. Sons row mother to island and impale her on giant's penis. The force of the ejaculation throws her across three islands, and she falls to her death on the fourth. Stylized figures, painted with incised outlines. Paint chipped in places.
- Kinsey subjects
- Folklore--Oceania--20th century.
- Subject headings
- Oceania.