It's done, done, done!

Did the oiling today [linseed oil]

I used common box for the "moustache" as palm branches are a little hard to get here.

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Mugshot

Finished the "spikes" yesterday, did an eye-job today. Just some final sandpapering and oiling left to be done.

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Hair and Beard

Today I completed the first "ring" of hair and beard.




















Last night I started on the beard. It has a very distictive, graphic effect.

No easy job, though since you can't afford any miscuts.


















This is one of my models. Wereldmuseum Rotterdam [Summer 2010]

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Sandpapering

Roughing out is nearly done.

This afternoon it almost felt like spring, so I went outdoors. An hour later, we had hail and snow.


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Arms

Just the left arm, actually.


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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

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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

Atingting Kon

Slit drum-to-be after examples from Ambrym Island Vanuatu AKA New Hebrides

Brookfield Produce & Pet Pavilion Brisbane QLD August 2011

On seeing this holiday snap, three days ago, my mother asked whether this was going to be my next project? Well, I guess it has to. If only as a go-between.

A first sketch

Ambrym Island [Vanuatu]

Kröller-Müller Museum