FEATURE 116 12. Probably an individual named Bojsen-Moller, who, after the shipwreck of the Monsunen in Vanikoro (Coiffi er 2014: 112), abandoned his companions on the homeward journey and organized a small expedition with Scotsman William McGregor. They obtained permission from the Australian government to acquire six human skulls as well as objects decorated with bird of paradise feathers. They collected nearly 700 objects, mostly from the Lower Sepik River region (Stensager 2012: 79). The members of the La Korrigane expedition were authorized to collect three skulls (Coiffi er 2014: 135). 13. Cf. letter by E. Wauchope to the secretary of the Australian Museum, dated September 24, 1935. The Wauchopes left Angoram that day. 14. Cf. letter from Rudder’s Ltd. of Sydney to the secretary of the Australian Museum, dated November 7, 1935. 15. The inhabitants of the villages of Dimiri, Yaul, and Marawat, located in the bush behind the Biwat villages, spoke a language that was somewhat different from that of the Biwat and were their allies on occasion. 16. According to Margaret Mead, there were no men’s houses in Biwat villages, but the men sometimes erected edifi ces for the celebration of a specifi c event. The possibility that men’s houses existed in the past and were destroyed by the colonial administration during the years of “pacifi cation” in the late 1920s cannot be excluded. She wrote, moreover, that the ritual life of the Mundugumor stopped suddenly and completely, likening it to a “watch whose mainspring just snapped” (Mead 1963: 193, 209, and 241). 17. Crispin Howarth (2015a: 102) writes of these sculptures, “They are extremely rare, but that did not prevent Wauchope from acquiring fi ve of the six examples in the collection of the Australian Museum.” 18. The Australian Museum has fi fteen Yuat fl ute stoppers, many of which were collected by Ernest Wauchope (Howarth, 2015a: 104). 19. Numbers 111 and 112 in the catalog correspond to cards 1557 and 1558 and to inventory numbers D.39.3.870 and D.39.3.871: two wooden stoppers, each representing a human fi gure with an elongated head decorated with a beard made of human hair. 113 corresponds to card 1129 and inventory number D.39.3.522. FIG. 24 (right): View of part of the collection of Arthur Speyer. From Schindlbeck, 2012: 111. Reproduced by permission of Jeanette Speyer. FIG. 25 (left): Sculpture of a seated person. Wood, fi ber. H: 94.6 cm. Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection. UEA 157.
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