Ceremonial staff "temes nevinbür" ·  Vanuatu · ID: 3037089

Description

anthropomorphic head made of vegetable mass, painted in black and red, crowned by a conical headdress coated with cobwebs, worked on a wooden stick, provided with boar tusks, metal base;
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 3037089 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 68.

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Comparing literature

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