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Grade Figure "rom Mask" Ambrym Vanuatu Oceania
Very rare and monumental. Carved in the trunk of a tree fern with a grade figure adorned with a ROM mask.
collected on the island of Ambrym in the village of Olal.
The little chief Sekor invited me to visit his father's abandoned Nassara, and I was able to acquire this ROM mask fern from inside the collapsing Nassara. You can see on this fern by its V-shape above its cap, that it supported the frame. This place of the chiefs' kava was also the place of making ROM masks out of sight of women. This rare sculpture of the Rom grade is little observed.
Early 20th century
Sold with CITES (convention washington)
Circumference: 120cm
collected on the island of Ambrym in the village of Olal.
The little chief Sekor invited me to visit his father's abandoned Nassara, and I was able to acquire this ROM mask fern from inside the collapsing Nassara. You can see on this fern by its V-shape above its cap, that it supported the frame. This place of the chiefs' kava was also the place of making ROM masks out of sight of women. This rare sculpture of the Rom grade is little observed.
Early 20th century
Sold with CITES (convention washington)
Circumference: 120cm
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