Tatanua masks and maori beliefs helen
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- 1. Tatanua Masks and Maori Beliefs in The Bone People By Helen Bush
- 9. • Tatanua- “crested helmet type” of Malaggan mask • Malaggans- yearly ceremonies performed in honor of the dead, conducted from May to July • representations of the spiritof dead people • representations of living individuals
- 12. • Traditionally made away from women and children • “I used to carve a lot, and one of the old prohibitions was, while engaged in a carving you did not lie with a woman…because all the energy was tied up…” (266). • Masks were destroyed at the end of the ceremonies • “I carried out the rest of her commands, but it hasn‟t seemed sufficient. She buzzes back in the back of my head like a bluebottle sometimes” (353).
- 13. • “The „tribe‟ does not exclusively consist of the living . Since the dead ancestors hold power which transcends that of the living, they are highly revered” (Raeke). • “Sometimes there are very good reasons for their persistence in our world. Sometimes we have failed them” (353).