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The Kamanibit Flute and Stopper consists of a stopper carving
made up of a kneeling male figure with a hunting eagle sitting on
his head and a 500mm long bamboo flute tube has rattan binding at
each end with two aperatures. Material: wood, bamboo, rattan, shell, resin; length:
1160mm; width: 120mm; diameter: 52mm; brown matt patina. |
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Collected from the Iatmul people of Kamanibit in 1979.
Kamanibit is located on the Sepik River west of Timbunke and east of the Chambri Lake in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. |
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