Monday, August 26, 2013

Ritual Head

Artist Tim Gore brings us this outstanding preserved ritual head.

2 comments:

CoastConFan said...

Wow, that’s very much in the mood of a Maori Mokomokami preserved head. The presentation of the prop is quite good too, a kind of in situ tableau. Surprisingly the tattoo designs are very reminiscent of the Temple of Doom Thuggee cult high priest, at least for me. Nonetheless, it’s an outstanding prop.

http://maori.maori.nz/html/mokomokai.html

http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-ThoSmok.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokomokai

http://traffickingculture.org/encyclopedia/case-studies/mokomokai/

http://www.tollundman.dk/konservering.asp

http://pinterest.com/walksonclouds/mummies-and-the-like/

http://www.mummytombs.com/museums/germany.schleswig.landesmuseum.bog.htm

Phil said...

Absolutely amazing.