Ceremonial staff "temes nevinbür" ·  Vanuatu · ID: 3033038

Description

anthropomorphic head made of vegetable mass, painted in black and red, crowned by a conical headdress, cowwebbed, worked on a wooden stick, provided with boar tusks, good condition, on pedestal;
ceremonial staffs are images of the souls of deceased persons. At initiation- and memorial ceremonies they appear as movable dolls above a screen of leaf material.

The object Ceremonial staff “temes nevinbür” with the object ID 3033038 was last part of the auction 69th tribal art auction at June 2, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 38 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.

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Comparing literature

Kaufmann, Christian, Vanuatu - Kunst aus der Südsee, Basel 1997, ill. 166 - 173