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Melanesia
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Papua New Guinea
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New Ireland, Malangan
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| A malangan house with masks, friezes, power symbols and carvings, Kavienge, New Ireland l993 Malangan rituals and their accompanying arts continue to be essential in marking different stages of life (especially funerary and memorial functions), social status, validating land use transactions, establishing new sub clans, making rain and for celebrations. Complex three dimensional colorful carvings in sculptural, mask and frieze forms with the realistic opercala snail eyes, are present at all of these occasions and the work of Master Carvers is widely acclaimed | ||
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