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Small Namba Initiation & Grade taking objects, |
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Melanesia
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Vanuatu
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Malekula
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Ceremonial
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| Sculptures of the Namba people used in initiation and grade taking rituals. Made of bush material and spider webes - home of the spirits. The long noses on some of the pieces indicate they were used in circumscion ceremonies. | ||
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