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Alcheringa - Fine Tribal Art of the Northwest Coast, Papua New Guinea, and Australia



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Edward Salle
Lava Village, Tatau, Tabar Islands
Papua New Guinea
2008

Wood (Alstonia sp.), black paint (charcoal), brown paint (charred eel excreta, called tar), yellow paint (kebit tree), white paint (lime)
21.5" X 3.5" X 1.5"

$500.00 CDN


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This mouthpiece is clenched between the teeth of a dancer wearing a tatanua mask as part of the performance called vanis. Hornbill mouthpieces like this one, carved or using actual hornbill beaks, are used in a variety of malagan performances. Dancers often mimic the movements of birds.

For more on tatanuas, see notes for Nit titili and Nit xalaxala.