with overhanging forehead, circular pierced eyes, small nose, the mouth showing a smiling expression, small triangular ears. Painted with triangular motives in red and white. Bound with raffia hair. Wooden masks from Vanuatu are quite rare. This example has a written text in the interior reading: Mask from Mallicollo, New Hebrides, (Macklin). Macklin could refer to M.C.H. Macklin, an ornithologist who studied parrots in Vanuatu in 1935. For reference of a wooden mask from Vanuatu see: Hausenstein, 'Barbaren und Klassiker, ein Buch von der Bildnerei exotisher Volker, Munchen 1922, cover image. This book is included in this lot.

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