Amulet

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Culture Alamblak

Culture Yimam

Title Amulet (Yipwon)

Date Before 1965

Medium Wood and pigment

Dimensions Object: 15 × 3 3/4 × 1 in. (38.1 × 9.5 × 2.5 cm)
Overall (includes mount): 16 1/16 × 3 1/2 × 3 7/16 in. (40.8 × 8.9 × 8.7 cm)

Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 80.34

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About this Work

Known as yipwon, amulets such as this one were utilized by the Alamblak, Yiman and other peoples to aid and protect the amulet’s owner during both warfare and hunting. In addition to being personally owned, such amulets were personally named.

Larger yipwon, owned by the community instead of an individual, followed the same form, the use of alternating and curved pointed hooks vertically arranged around a central element. This amulet has both an anthropomorphic head at its center and a parrot head at the bottom.

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