Preparing for ceremonial dress and dance

Examining pig's tusks selected for decoration to be worn during ceremonial ritual dance celebrating the First Anniversary of Independence.
Ownership of a boar is a status symbol.

• Summer 1981

• Larcom, Joan

• Skinner-Jones, Ann

• First Anniversary Celebration
• Land and Custom Sustained and Revived

• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• South West Bay (Malakula, Vanuatu)
• Vanuatu
• Wintua (Malekula, Vanuatu)

• Clothing and dress
• Tusks
• Vanuatu Independence

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

• Skinner-Jones, Ann

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