OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Roesler (2011): Central Asmat

anakatipic

•  the true man that departs from the body at death.; the real person including body; soul; spirit(eng).

Encyclopedic info: perhaps only of humans. Contrasted in text with namwip, personality that had been captured by spirits.

Reference: 2.96; 4.1328; 6.1890