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Haus tambaran with carved figure
Photographic print, 14.9 x 20 cm
, by John Watt Beattie, 1906
The British Museum, London


A traditional haus tambaran from the Solomon Islands, functioning as a ceremonial structure connected to ancestor veneration and spiritual safeguarding. The carved wooden figure at the entrance acts as a guardian representing ancestral presence, a common element in Melanesian architecture among communities. The woven walls and surrounding vegetation demonstrate the building’s close integration with its cultural and ecological surroundings.