Micha Ronsnumbre

Country/Region: Western New Guinea (view other artists)

Village: Biak

Micha Ronsnumbre is a senior carver on Biak Island, off the northwest coast of New Guinea. Here he is shown with his commissioned lotus window frame in the Buddhist temple on Biak.

Highly-regarded for his carving, he is also well-versed in the cosmology, philosophy and history of his culture and willingly relates the legends and the significance of the symbolism in Biak design.

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