"Dancing Stick, Vanuatu Melanesia, New Hebrides. Twentieth Century"
Dance stick, VanuatuMelanesia, New Hebrides. 20th century
Height: 60cm
Anthropomorphic figure, in vegetal overmodeling, attached to a wooden handle.
The face is outlined in relief. The superciliary arches surround the eyes and join the nose.
Polychromed with natural pigments.
This stick was collected in 1985 south of Malakula and has remained with the same collector ever since.
Ref. :4011
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