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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  The Todd Barlin Collection of Fine Oceanic & Asian Arts
• Sale Date:
  08 May 2016 ~ 12noon
• Lot #:
  223
• Lot Description:
  Three Pig Bone Belts & an Incised Decorated Penis Gourd, Waris District, West Papua, Indonesia, [4]
  Belts 45 cm, Gourd 15 cm
• 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.
• Estimate:
  A$300 - 500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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