Nuts or seeds carved with ancestral faces
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Nuts or seeds carved with ancestral faces

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Nuts or seeds carved with ancestral faces, The object is split to represent the mouth. If the lower part of it is flipped with the thumb nail a sound results which is similar to a frog croaking. The beads were worn by young men as a necklace and used to atract girls during courtship rituals. New Guinea. Sepik River region. Late 19th c

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Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman

Notre référence

UMG12A27_316

Model release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

30,9Mo (1002,2Ko) / 27,3cm x 28,4cm / 3220 x 3352 (300dpi)

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