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Back ornament "kara-ut" - Papua New Guinea - Maprik

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Back ornament "kara-ut" - Papua New Guinea - Maprik

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Description

mesh fabric, dyed with red and yellow ochre, embroidered with nassa snails, boar tusks, two cowrie snails, in shape of a stylized human figure;
today "kara-ut" is worn in everyday life but only by those men who already have reached the initiation level "kara". In former times they were important war ornament; they were held in the mouth during the fight in order to express bellicosity.
H: 36,5 cm
Lit.: Heermann, Ingrid & Ulrich Menter, Schmuck der Südsee, München 1990, ill. 26
Continent: Oceania

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Back ornament "kara-ut" - Papua New Guinea - Maprik

Name: Back ornament \"kara-ut\" - Papua New Guinea - Maprik
SKU: 28924106
Price: 300 EUR
Availability: InStock

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