Tomkins Collection

Figure, Iniet/Ingiat

TC 508
Provenance: Michael Hamson, Palos Verdes Estates, 2009
Dimensions: 9 13/16 in. (25 cm)
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Ingiat are stone spirit figures created by a sorcerer with supernatural powers. The ingiat are kept away from non-members of the society, i.e. uninitiated men, women and children. Songs are chanted to the ingiat as they are created or to perform sorcery. (To’Liman-Turalir 2001: 43)

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