OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Roesler (2011): Central Asmat

bi bokom

•  adj. similar face.

Encyclopedic info: They see that the face of some stranger is like that of a dead relative, and so adopt that person as a relative and give him the name of the dead person.

Reference: 8.312; 8.750