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House protective figure by the Mentawai people on display in the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas. #303768672
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Pictured is a house protective figure by the Mentawai people on display in the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, Texas. In the old community houses on Siberut in the Mentawai achipelago, the uma, an artistic openwork carving with a monkey skull was mounted, a so-called jaraik. The place of the carving was always above the door to the room where the women slept with the small children. Only a handful of original jaraik have survived. Most of them are now in western museums.
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