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A NEW IRELAND ORNAMENT
Carved with a male figure, squatting, prominent genitals, head bent, his face with hooked nose, both hands raised and touching the long openwork beak of a bird behind, the last with claws, separate carved wings and central tail, the eyes with opercula-shell inlay, painted red and black against a white ground
52 cm long
Carved with a male figure, squatting, prominent genitals, head bent, his face with hooked nose, both hands raised and touching the long openwork beak of a bird behind, the last with claws, separate carved wings and central tail, the eyes with opercula-shell inlay, painted red and black against a white ground
52 cm long