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Vanuatu Malekula Janus Faced Cannibal Container, first half of 20th c.
Vanuatu Malekula Janus Faced Cannibal Container, first half of 20th c.
Vanuatu Malekula Janus Faced Cannibal Container, first half of 20th c.
Vanuatu Malekula Janus Faced Cannibal Container, first half of 20th c.

Vanuatu Malekula Janus Faced Cannibal Container, first half of 20th c.

$ 237.6

Availability: 67 in stock
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Culture: Pacific Islands & Oceania

    Description

    VANUATU-MALEKULA ISLAND CANNIBAL CONTAINER
    Description: A bamboo container surrounded by vegetable paint over clay human features and vine fiber wrappings. Used by Malekulans to smoke human flesh, a practice that was stopped by British and French colonial administrative powers.
    Age: from the late 1950's to 1970's
    Size:
    Provenance: from the collection of Scott Duggleby, Tx.
    See Speiser, Felix, An Anthology of Vanuatu, An early 20th c. study.