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NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art: Slit Gong od wallyg

<i>Slit Gong (Atingting Kon)</i> mid- to late 1960s Commissioned by Tain Mal, carved by Tin Mweleun (active 1960s) Fanla village, Ambrym Island, Vanuatu Wood, paint; H. 168 in. (426.7 cm) The towering slit gongs of northern Vanuatu are among the largest freestanding musical instruments on earth. Found primarily on Ambrym, Malakula, and neighboring islands, they are carved from the trunks of large breadfruit trees, hollowed out to create a resonating chamber with a narrow slitlike aperture. In each village, a number of gongs, comprising a sort of informal orchestra, stand on the village dancing ground. Gong orchestras are played at major social and religious events such as initiations, funerals, and dances. When playing, the musician stands in front of the gong and strikes the lip of the slit with a clublike wood beater. As the gong ensemble is played, rhythms of immense variety and complexity can be produced through the carefully coordinated actions of multiple drummers. In addition to musical performances, slit gongs are, or were, used to communicate between villages. Under proper atmospheric conditions, their sound can carry for miles through the forest and, in rare instances, across the water to neighboring islands. A complex series of gong &quot;languages&quot; composed of beats and pauses enables highly specific messages to be sent rapidly to distant locations. The present slit gong is from Fanla village on northern Ambrym Island. It was commissioned in the 1960s by the village chief, Tain Mal, who was acknowledged as its &quot;creator,&quot; but made by Tin Mweleun, a renowned carver from a neighboring village. The gong is carved in the form of a stylized ancestor figure with large, disklike eyes and a prominent nose. The spiral motifs on the eyes are symbolic of metan galgal, the morning star. Small arms and other spiral motifs depicting sacred pig's tusks appear on either side of the face, which is surrounded by projections representing hair. The long vertical slit represents the mouth, through which the ancestor's &quot;voice&quot; emerges as sound whenever the gong is played. Rogers Fund, 1975 (1975.93) ** The <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/246896968/">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>'s permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. It opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Under their guidance of John Taylor Johnston and George Palmer Putnam, the Met's holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met's purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations were temporary; after negotiations with the city of New York, the Met acquired land on the east side of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/sets/72157594192309086/">Central Park</a>, where it built its permanent home, a red-brick Gothic Revival stone &quot;mausoleum&quot; designed by American architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold. As of 2006, the Met measures almost a quarter mile long and occupies more than two million square feet, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building. In 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was ranked #17 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967. The interior was designated in 1977. National Historic Register #86003556
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