A Superb Old Aibom Village Sago Pot Called Dnmrau Chambri Lakes Area, East Sepik Province

Superb Large Old Aibom Village Sago Pots were collected in 1965 by Keith Adams, Chambri Lakes With Totemic Eagle Face

Collected in 1965  by Keith Adams (1922 -1996) he was a documentary Film Maker & Crocodile Hunter and Adventurer

Aibom is the name of a pottery-making village in the Chambri Lakes area in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.

Aibom Village was central to a long flourishing traditional trading ring, they made magnifificent Pottery Vessels like this superb example that are used for storing Sago flour, these were traded to villages up and down the Sepik River.

There is a constant need to store Sago as it’s the major food source for many people in New Guinea and these magnificent jars are made just for that purpose. The large Sago Storage Pottery are called Dnmrau is used for the long-term storage of smoked sago.

The pottery are decorated with faces that represent either humans, animals, or bush spirits. In this case example the face finely rendered in the form of a  totemic eagle

It is interesting to note that women make the jars, while the men decorate them by carving faces in the fresh clay and painting the jars once they are fired.

Provenance: Keith Adams (b. 1922 -1996) Documentary Film Maker & Crocodile Hunter and Adventurer

Keith Adams’s son told this story:
“ My father was so keen to get these pots back to Australia he chartered a small plane to fly them back to Port Moresby from Angoram, each pot had its own seat on the airplane, they were crated & shipped from Port Moresby and eventually arrived in Australia in near perfect condition.

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