Two Papua New Guinea bamboo pipes

Two Papua New Guinea bamboo pipes

Melanesia

one with all-over incised geometric decoration, the other with a bifurcated end and with scorched decoration including symbols around the aperture, and inscribed in black NG103,

51cm and 49.5cm long,

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