The World's Eye by Potts Albert M.;

Author:Potts, Albert M.; [Potts, Albert M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 82. “Tiki” (tekoteko) mask from New Zealand, derived from gable mask. By permission of Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

Figure 83. Sepik face-pot with pig face. By permission of Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, Abteilung Südsee.

Figure 84. Sepik face-pot with humanoid eyes. By permission of Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, Abteilung Südsee.

Thus the connection between the apotropaic face-pot, the gable mask, and the clay-modeled human skull, made by me on theoretical grounds, was made by Professor Schuster from narrative material and observations of his own expedition.

In his discussion of the skull-headed figure Schuster retells a native myth: “The ancestors wanted to show the face of Yuman to the women and children and therefore they made a Tumbuan (a large mask figure). First they tried to make the head out of mud. However, that was not satisfactory and the head fell apart. Then they tried to make it of wood—but the head broke nevertheless. Then the ancestors killed a very tall enemy by the name of Beoni who belonged to the village of Yangglambit in the bush between Aibom and Korosemeri. For this they made a pit on the bottom of which they stuck spears with the points directed upwards. Beoni ran over the spot, fell in, and died. They cut off his head, cooked it, prepared it with clay, and painted it. Now the Tumbuan had been given the proper head.”

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