jan 1, 1900 - Malagan
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Wood, pigment, fiber and shell
made for malangan, a cycle of rituals of the people of N.New Ireland. Also used as an I.D. for clans and to negotiate the transmission of right to land. Made for a single occasion then destroyed. Symbolic of things like: identity, kin, gender, death, and the spirit world.
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