Tête-masque de poupée "temes maur" · Vanuatu · ID: 3047756
Piet Lepelaar, Leiden, The Netherlands
Description
tree-fern root, vegetable clay, red ochre, boar tusks, spider web material,
These masks are embodiments of the souls of the deceased and are closely linked to funeral rituals “nalawan nemasien” or “masien”.
They bear different names (“temes maur”, “nani”, “nato”, “maux”) and their use differs in each community.
During funeral rituals, they could be worn like a mask, with a veil made of spider-web material allowing the dancer to see. Other mask heads were mounted on sticks and placed around the funerary bier, where they represented the ancestors. At ceremonies to remember the dead, they are said to have appeared as moving puppets above a screen of leaf material.
L’objet Tête-masque de poupée “temes maur” avec l’ID d’objet 3047756 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 96e Vente aux enchères dans 24 avril 2021 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 93 a atteint un prix de vente de 1 000 €.
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Littérature comparée
Howarth, Crispin, Kastom, Art of Vanuatu, Canberra 2013, p. 101