tamate² mask, headdress worn during the tamate ritual [...]

Part of Speech	noun
Phonetic Form	tamate
Proto-Form	Mota: tamate 'dead person; soul, spirit; ghost; headdress' ; PNVanuatu: *qata-mate 'dead person'

• • mask, headdress worn during the tamate ritual dances, representing the tamate spirits

  Sense Comment

  meton

  • • Example 862:
      

      Tamate li-romo wako, ia idi li-madau.

      The dancing masks were beautiful, but scary. [lit. but one feared them]

      Example URL

      https://doi.org/10.24397/pangloss-0003351#S162

    • Example 2318:
      

      Ka li-tobo ñe tamate pe ka mata mwaliko i-ke me i-romo.

      They've made holes in the Tamate masks, so that (the dancer) can see through.

Related entries

• Heterosemes:
  • tamate¹ a high-profile Spirit that comes out in villages during ritual dances and important celebrations
• See also:
  • kiñe tamate the long, many fibres made of leaves, which hang down from a tamate ritual mask, by way of the Spirit's hair