Träplatta "Kwoi", platta

Samling 1936.32.1-49 är enligt generalkatalogen: "36.32.1-44 gåva av E.Williams, Port Moresby Museum, Papua. 36.32.45-49. gåva av Hon. J.G. Nelson, Woodlark Island, Papua."

Se korrespondansen 1936 och 1937 under Nelson och Williams.

F.E. Williams var "government anthropologist" i Papua och skrev flera studier och rapporter över Papua och Nya Guinea. Två böcker berör samlingen 1936.32.1-49:

Anthropology. Report No. 5. The Natives of the Purari Delta. Port Moresby 1924.

Papuans of the Trans-Fly. Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1936.

Målad och snidad träplatta.

Se 36.32.43
36.32.43-44. Pair of painted plaques, Kwoi. They are from the Purari Delta. they are kept in the alcoves (larava) of the Men's Houses. Besides having a decorative value thay have a religious significance. They are associated with the families belonging to the different larava and possibly represented ancestors originally. They are treated with reverence, and thought to give assistance especially in hunting.