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Masque à igname "silgu" ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Abelam · ID: 3041641

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Description

lygodium, openworked, wickerwork coated with layers of pigments, which means that this particular yam mask must have adorned the head of a number of particular long yam roots;
masks of that kind were used when the “big yam” was harvested. The fruit was looked upon as a spiritual being and was adorned with such masks and feathers of the white cockatoo.


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