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| Malanggan memorial carvings were made for elaborate ceremonies to honor the dead in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. Different clans owned different designs, and any artist hired to make a malanggan could work only designs owned by the patron’s clan. Malanggan carvings took months to make, but after guests had viewed them, the carvings were burned or left to rot, breaking the connection with dangerous supernatural forces called into them when they were made.
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