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Oceanic art

  • dilly bag; Aboriginal Australian art, Northern Territory, Australia
    In Oceanic art and architecture: The Solomon Islands

    …Buka-Bougainville two-dimensional art is the kokorra, a silhouette of a squatting or standing human figure with upraised hands and the male mitrelike coiffure. This figure—or the head alone—was painted and carved in bas-relief upon a great variety of objects, including canoes, paddles, slit gongs, dance clubs, and architectural elements.

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