From Erub Island, Torres Straits, Australia (early 1800's). Turtleshell masks were worn during funerary dances during the days following death, when the deceased was laid out to be viewed. After this the body could be placed on a bamboo platform to decay, left in the forest, or buried. Ten days and then roughly six months after the death important feasts were held. Spirits of the recent dead would appear and the masks were worn again to honour and appease them and help their journey to the island of the dead.