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Large standing slit drum 'atingting'
Vanuatu, Ambrym Island, Fanla Village

greyish brown wood (presumably breadfruit tree), hollow tree trunk with slit-shaped opening, crowned by an elongated head with concave vaulted facial plane, carved with big, disc-shaped eyes 'mat teleusi' (full-moon eye) and bulky nose, crude milled endpiece for fixing to the ground, dam., minor missing parts, cracks, traces of weathering;
it is to be noted that the ancestral faces of the slit drums 'atingting' lack a mouth. The slit which is beaten is the mouth and the sound is the voice of the ancestors, who speak in coded rhythms across large areas, sending messages back and forth.
H: 200 cm, coll. in situ, 1987 (5230/006)

Lit.: Newton, Douglas (ed.), Arts of the South Seas, The Collection of the Musée Barbier-Mueller, München, London, New York 1999, p. 288 f.

Large standing slit drum 'atingting'
Vanuatu, Ambrym Island, Fanla Village

greyish brown wood (presumably breadfruit tree), hollow tree trunk with slit-shaped opening, crowned by an elongated head with concave vaulted facial plane, carved with big, disc-shaped eyes 'mat teleusi' (full-moon eye) and bulky nose, crude milled endpiece for fixing to the ground, dam., minor missing parts, cracks, traces of weathering;
it is to be noted that the ancestral faces of the slit drums 'atingting' lack a mouth. The slit which is beaten is the mouth and the sound is the voice of the ancestors, who speak in coded rhythms across large areas, sending messages back and forth.
H: 200 cm, coll. in situ, 1987 (5230/006)

Lit.: Newton, Douglas (ed.), Arts of the South Seas, The Collection of the Musée Barbier-Mueller, München, London, New York 1999, p. 288 f.