"Prow Of Canoe, Papua New Guinea, Oceania, Primitive Art, Oceanic Art, Marine Object"
Exceptional and imposing canoe prow in the shape of a crocodile's head. Today, the canoe remains the most common means of transport in the Sepik River valley. Most of these canoes used in the lower and middle Sepik area have a sculpted prow representing the head of a crocodile, an animal respected. Hard wood and ravined by time with traces of use and remains of polychromy. Sold on a base. 
Le Magazine de PROANTIC
TRÉSORS Magazine
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