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The roof of ijuk (Arenga-fibres), is high and steep, with projecting gables at each end : on the peaked gable in front is the skull of a buffalo or an imitation of its head in ijuk with real horns attached. But the characteristic adornment of the gable front of the houses of the better kind is a most elaborate concern called giorognom - giorognom (Fig. 5), of which I give here a drawing as more eloquent than the best worded description. Besides, on each side of the facade, is a huge symbolic figure-head, elaborately carved and painted; it has a sort of proboscis and a generally elephantine aspect, it is called signa (Fig. 6), and may be a relic of Ganesa, for the Battaks show many signs of remote Hindoo influence. Besides actual specimens of the giorognom , signa and various painted house-boards, Modigliani's collection contains beautiful reduced models of one and moveables. |
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Intern. Gesellschaft für Ethnographie; Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden (1888-). Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie. Getty Research Institute. Leiden : P.W.M. Trap.
https://archive.org/details/internationalesa06inte/page/115/mode/2up |
Author | Henry Hillyer Giglioli |
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