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74-30-6

From: New Hebrides | Malekula

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Native Name Umbogimogut
Object Number 74-30-6
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Small Nambas
Provenience New Hebrides | Malekula
Section Oceanian
Materials Plant Fiber | Clay | Tusk | Pigment
Description

Head with long nose, pig tusks protruding from side of mouth. Clay on vegetable fiber. Painted. Made during the circumcision ceremony of a group of young men. One made for each initiate. Item must be paid for with a pig: payment of the pig is for the right to make the artifact (copyright). The mask made by one of the older men is actually given to the initiate and is placed in the Nakamal after the ceremony.

Item name: umbogimog (h)ut

Credit Line New Hebrides Expedition; John D. Hedrick, 1974
Other Number MK-102 - Other Number

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