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Fish-Faced Weed-Robed Celebrants of Ghoulish Rites

FISH-FACED WEED-ROBED CELEBRANTS OF GHOULISH RITES

At specific dances and at initiation ceremonies, costumes are worn which represent various legendary and mythical figures, the precise significance of which has not been ascertained by ethnologists. These horrible fish-like masks, framed in white feathers, are used by the tribes along the Gulf of Papua