Clash of Two Cultures when Rare Art is Revealed for the First Time.<br>--------------------<br>Unforgettable<br>head on collision was the result of rare secret art being released from the tropical islands Vanuatu, in the South Pacific.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><br>Bethany regularly receives<br>invitations to attend the opening of exhibitions at the prestigious Annandale<br>Gallery, Trafalgar Street. Built as a Methodist Church in 1860, then used<br>as a Masonic Hall in the 1920s, the stately building is now an up market<br>Gallery in a trendy inner city suburb of Sydney, Australia. <br><br><br><br><br><br>Gallery owners have specialized in showing<br>the best of Australian and overseas modern art. This has earned them an<br>enviable reputation in art circles around the world.<br><br><br><br><br><br>July 22nd seemed exceptional<br>from the outset. The invitation spoke about secret rare art on view for the<br>first time, from a remote tropical island of a tiny South Pacific archipelago. Art<br>that had never before been seen outside Vanuatu.<br><br><br><br><br><br>At the opening a group of nine Ni-Vanuatu<br>artists, dressed in full custom regalia, would perform a sacred ceremonial<br>dance from the remote island of Ambrym. <br><br><br><br><br><br>It all sounded rather mysterious and lots<br>of fun,clash of clans base builder. Eagerly Bethany arranged with two<br>friends to attend the opening, before they went to dinner at one of the fine<br>restaurants around Darling Harbour. The girls had<br>long ago made the firm decision to either be driven by one of their husbands or<br>dropped off, or go in a taxi, in order to do away with the problem of trying to<br>work their way through the Sydney traffic and<br>finding a park for the Mercedes-Benz,http://www.clashofclansstrategyguides.org/top-new-coc-defense-strategy-video-guide-for-th7-players/.<br><br><br><br><br><br>After pushing our way through the usual<br>hubbub of Sydney traffic, we<br>arrived later than we had expected. The strands of lovely island music greeted us<br>as we approached the gallery door, Bethany said. Sounded as<br>if the South<br> Seas<br>had come to town. Made one think of swaying palms and blue green tropical<br>oceans. I think my husband and I will take that South Pacific cruise we have<br>been promising ourselves, she mused.<br><br><br><br><br><br>Sipping a glass of French champagne, Bethany and her friends<br>joined the other guests buzzing with excitement,clash of clans best th10 farming base 2015, as they admired the<br>beautifully carved wooden figures and masks, plus a four metre wooden drum. The<br>upright tam-tam, one of the worlds largest free standing musical instruments.<br>This art is very ancient and rare, yet it could be easily mistaken for any<br>piece of modern artwork, said David Baker the Gallery curator. There is only<br>one piece similar to it in a British museum.<br><br><br><br><br><br>A barely clad figure stepped up to the tam-tam<br>and began a steady methodical beat on the lip of the wooden gongs face. A<br>stylized face that had been carefully carved to represent an ancestor. The long slit up the front of the drum<br>allowing the ancestor to speak once more. <br><br><br><br><br><br>Covered from head-to-toe in what looked like<br>a tent of dried leaves, with brightly wooden masks over their faces, topped by<br>chicken feathers, danced four men. With<br>slow rhythmic steps, they moved to the center of the room, chanting in a monotone.<br>Five other men in the full regalia of their secret society danced in the center<br>of the group. Stomping their feet, chanting and clapping their hands, they<br>moved as one, to the beat of the ancestors voice from the drum.<br><br><br><br><br><br>Shock registered on the Sydney matrons faces as<br>the five mature Ambrym men, dressed only with a wide bark belt slung low over<br>their hips. A Namba penis sheath barely<br>covering the essential part of manhood, as they concentrated on their sacred<br>dance. A bright red hibiscus flower perched<br>jauntily over one ear. They appeared to be unaware of the sensation they were<br>causing, as the gleaming well formed buttocks of the dancers jiggled up and<br>down in time to the beat of their dance.<br><br><br><br><br><br>No women are permitted to touch these men<br>as they are considered taboo, Bethany laughed. It was rather difficult to know just where to<br>look, when the dancers first entered the room. I havent seen that much bare<br>bottom since my four children were youngsters. <br><br><br><br><br><br>It is one thing to think of these men<br>dancing in the soft light of a tropical island forest, bare feet pounding out<br>the ceremonial rhythm on a dirt floor, but to think of them as having just come<br>from a modern hotel room, through the Australian winter,coc th6, braving the Sydney traffic, was a mind<br>exploding experience. <br><br><br><br><br><br>We were told this is strictly Mens<br>Business, as any woman witnessing the ceremony accidentally, had to be<br>killed, Bethany told me. Just as<br>well that doesnt apply today. They are still taboo though and no woman is<br>permitted to touch them. Bethany laughed.<br><br><br><br><br><br>In a land of over 153 distinct cultures and<br>languages,coc best war base th9, remote distances and fewmodern<br>communication devices, life moves at a different pace in the tropical islands<br>of Vanuatu, voted the<br>Happiest Country on Earth in 2006. In many locations villagers still live as<br>their ancestors have done for generations. Education, in an oral tradition, is handed<br>down from father to son, through dance, songs, carvings and sand drawings.<br><br><br><br><br><br>The Chiefs are beginning to recognize the<br>educational needs of these remote islands. Many of the younger generation have<br>lost the ability to understand the mystic language of the carved gongs. The<br>chiefs made the decision to share the secrets of their society and released<br>some of their sacred rare art, setting the art world on its ear. The aim being<br>to inspire their young people and make them more aware of their ancient<br>culture.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Few<br>people are unaware that the tiny South Pacific neighbor of Australia had such wonderful<br>secrets tucked away, in the Must See Travel Adventure Destination of the<br>South Pacific. <br><br><br><br>This ancient society is slowly reaching out<br>for the benefits of modern civilization. Children dream of becoming pilots,<br>teachers, engineers. Yet, many of the villagers live on under $1 per day. In<br>2007 the government of Vanuatu government<br>admitted they do not have the resources to meet the educational needs of the<br>nation. Education is low on their list<br>of priorities. <br><br><br><br> YouMe Support Foundation and its Child<br>Trust Fund is one of the few foundations assisting these children. 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