Jennifer S. Alderson
The plot of my latest art mystery, Rituals of the Dead, was directly inspired by collection research I conducted in 2008 for the Tropenmuseum, an anthropological museum in Amsterdam. Just like Zelda in this novel, I was tasked with finding audiovisual material suitable for the upcoming "Bisj-Poles: Sculptures from the Rain Forest" exhibition.
In the Netherlands, the English spelling of the Asmat’s headhunting ritual is ‘bisj’. Yet in most other countries it is ‘bis’, which is why I chose to use this spelling in my novel.
In the Netherlands, the English spelling of the Asmat’s headhunting ritual is ‘bisj’. Yet in most other countries it is ‘bis’, which is why I chose to use this spelling in my novel.
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