Ritual Mask

Purchased by the collector at the Himford Farea Museum, Port Vila, Efate Island, Vanuatu.

Mask with projecting eye ridges and a projecting nose with two circular, white nostrils on either side, and a base painted white. The head is cone-shaped. Red triangles project from the top of the head at the front. It is painted green and black on one side with a white stripe. The right side is painted red with a white stripe and a border of alternating black and white triangles.