Tolai Dukduk/Tubuan (Tumbuan) Papua New Guinea Female tubuan mask at the village Karavia liu. We zijn in het dorpje Karavia Liu. De mensen behoren tot de stam van de Tolai. We zien de dans van 2 geesten. Hun namen Oetnapoewie en Tenata. Ooit kwamen ze als 2 oude mannen de dorpelingen groeten. Deze dansers behoren tot een geheime genootschap. De mannelijke maskers zijn de 'Duk Duk' en de vrouwelijke maskers noemen ze de 'Tubuan' maskers. Beide zijn ongeveer identiek. Hier zien we de 'Tubuan' dansers, dus de vrouwelijke versie, maar de dansers zijn wel mannen. De 'duk duk' dansers zijn veel groter en volumineuzer. Vrouwen worden niet verondersteld naar de dansers te kijken. Tumbuan dance. Duk-Duk is a secret society, part of the traditional culture of the Tolai people of the Rabaul area of New Britain, the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea, in the South Pacific. The society has religious and political as well as social objectives. It represents a rough sort of law and order through its presiding spirit Duk-Duk, a mysterious figure dressed in leaves to its waist, with a helmet like a gigantic candle-extinguisher made of network. Women and children were forbidden to look at this figure. The Dukduk society uses male duk duk and female tubuan masks. Both types are cone-shaped and are constructed of cane and fibre, with short, bushy capes of leaves. Traditionally the duk duk was taller than the tubuan and was faceless. The tubuan had circular eyes and a crescent-shaped mouth painted on a dark background. Only males could belong to Duk-Duk from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duk-Duk
