OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Roesler (2011): Central Asmat

Bansarkay

Variants: Mansarkay

•  name of individual spirit.

Note: Possibly Asmat name for the Devil.

Encyclopedic info: Said to live in the ground. He sometimes becomes a snake or a human.

Reference: 1.598; 2.1125