Foregrounded Asmat culture-hero, entered as demigod per the brief. Carving descent from him obliges every wowipits (master-carver). vitalStatus 'deceased'/mythic-past. Orthography varies (Fumeripitsj); native-language exact terms beyond jew/wowipits not securely transcribed in accessible sources, so left blank rather than invented.
Domains
woodcarving
origin of humankind
Powers
carves the first human beings out of wood
beats a drum to bring his carved figures to life
Epithets
Fumeripits
Sources
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, 'The Asmat'
Schneebaum, Tobias. Embodied Spirits: Ritual Carvings of the Asmat (Peabody Museum, 1990)