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Representation of a wooden snake featuring numerous hooks probably evoking hornbill beaks. Animals are present in many clan founding myths. Some of the totemic animals represented and carved here refer to these ancestral myths. Unique piece in hardwood and natural pigments. Traces of use. Collected in the Blackwater region of Papua New Guinea. Approx. 111 x 14 x 14 cm / 520€ including shipping.
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