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Big Shaman Skull With Carved Face on the Top

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Tall Vigango Funerary Post Giryama peoples, Kenya: Tall and heavily eroded old wooden post with incised designs and serne carved face on top. "Kigango or Vigango" funerary post from the Giryama people of Kenya, Africa. Measures 58.5 inches tall ( 66.5

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Atoni Stick Carved Ancestor Face on the Top West Timor: Old Timor stick with carved ancestral face on the top, and engraved crocodiles below the handle. Solid hard wood, and good patina from use. No stand included. Mesurements: cm 105 x 3 (42" x 1 1/4") We

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African Wooden Drum: With large carved face of bearded man. Three feet, each with a carved face. Tightly stretched leather on top. 44 3/8" H x 11 1/2" diameter. Very good condition.

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Big Shaman Skull With Carved Face on the Top

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big shaman skull with carved face on the top WEST TIMOR boar skull 25 cm x 12,5 (inches 10" x 5") 225 g Shaman skull with a simply sketched face on the top, nice honey patina from handling. Beneath the thin veneer of Christianity in West Timor, animism, the oldest religion in the world, still pervades the lives of the average Atoni. The Dukun or village shaman is responsible for timing of rituals and brings out the ceremonial skulls at the appropriate time, then all the village is involved in the ritual. This jungle boar was killed ceremonially, its flesh dined on with gratitude and then the skull imbibed with appropriate spirit beings.

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