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Updated April 3, 2023

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Bananas are still a staple of Vanuatu residents' diets. These are for sale at a busy market in Port Vila.

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The mask held at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, made in Malakula, Vanuatu, from matted spiders' webs.

These Hoods Made of Spider Webs Have Long Been Misunderstood

From Vanuatu, they've been described as "smothering hoods and "caps of death."
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