Vanuatu Ambrym Island - part 2 (North)

Communicating by Tam Tam [=Atingting Kon] At 3:46

Old man with boar-tusks at 3:59

Slit drum Atingting Kon at 0:39

This is my documentation. And a substantial part of the fun.

Besette swin-licum

"...adorned with boar-figures..."
Beowulf l.1453
[i.e. his wondrous helmet]

The two curls which I carved today represent boar's tusks that demonstrate status and age. This reminds one of the Beowulfian boar-helmets l.1328, the boar-spears [eofer-spreotum] l.1437, Hrothgar's boar banner l.2152 [eafor heafodsegn]and more.
More about boars and Anglo-Saxon

More about Vanuatu and pigs

Thesis about Vanuatu, slit drums, status and prestige. [In Dutch/Flemish]
http://www.ethesis.net/vanuatu/vanuatu_deel_I_hfst_6.htm

Click for another image from the Metmuseum





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Green Man

Just a coincidence

Some more information on this slit-drum

Reconstructed Russian Idol

After an original(with peas for eyes) that was excavated in Novgorod

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Vanuatu Ambrym Island

The better craftsman at 1:32

Just a tryout and some sketching 7 January 2012

Van Masque du jour

Atingting - the beginning

This illustration came from a series of late seventies magazines called Distant Peoples (Verre volken)which I found on the local flea market