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Three pig bone Belts & an incised decorated Penis gourd, Waris…
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Sydney
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8-May-2016
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Three pig bone Belts & an incised decorated Penis gourd, Waris District, West Papua, Indonesia, [4]. Provenance: Collected by Todd Barlin 1985. See attached field photos of Waris men getting ready for a traditional ceremony, when they swing their hips forward and back whilst dancing the penis gourd hits the bone belts and makes a noise 'Tok, Tok, Tok'. When a group of men are doing this in unison it makes a great percussion sound. 'Comes with an ordinal photo I took in West Papua.' Todd Barlin. Belts 45 cm, gourd 15 cm
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Unclassified