Ceremonial staff "temes nevinbür"
Vanuatu
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Provenance
collected in situMr. West (1978)
Taille
H: 70 cm
H: 27.6 inch
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.