Image: Masque des Vanuatu - Savès MHNT ETH AC NH 66

Description: Mask ceremony of passing grades. In Malekula, ranks companies allow each individual to climb the ranks of the group. This mask depends on the secret community "Nalawan". The initiate first undergoes a period of seclusion to learn the dances and the manufacturing techniques of these figures. The last day of the festivities is forbidden to the uninitiated: the man dancing with the acquired mask indicating his rank. Two views of the same object. - two views of the same object Population : Vanuatu- Malakula island Date of collection: the nineteenth century (4th Quarter) - Former collection of Théophile Savès Materials: Reed, bamboo, rope, natural pigments, spider web, clay, boar's teeth (Sus scrofa). Size : 114 x 28 cm
Title: Masque des Vanuatu - Savès MHNT ETH AC NH 66
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