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Object Number 61-53-70/3965
Display Title Carved and cut-out wooden canoe ornament for the prow - 33 1/2 in.
Descriptions
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Asmat
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Indonesia / Western New Guinea / Irian Jaya / New Guinea / Village of Biwar

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