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Headdress. Melanesia, Vanuatu, Torba, Banks Islands, mid 20th CE. The term 'tamate' indicates the "dead ancesters" and by extension the masks, their dances and the rituals that are celebrated these spirits of the dead. Produced in sected, the tamate masks are being destroyed after the ceremony. Wood, plant fiber, plant paste, pigment, feather, 90 x 66 x 47 cm. 71.1957.12.1. Photo: Patrick Gries / Bruno Descoings.
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Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac/Paris/France
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ART518987
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4080px × 5440px
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© musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
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20th century CE
Headdress
Vanuatu cultures
