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7th September 2006, 09:25 PM
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Here is the picture. Beautiful piece, Tim, Congrats!!!!
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7th September 2006, 09:37 PM
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Hello Flavio,
Could you please help further and get the text up. While I take a picture of the top view. |
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7th September 2006, 09:46 PM
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Hi Tim, here is the text
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7th September 2006, 09:51 PM
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Top bananna Flavio!!
Are some books a few pages short, opinions please? |
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8th September 2006, 12:49 AM
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Tim
I saw that one and if it is the same piece you got it real cheap. The pics were fuzzy and I did not want to chance it. Congrats it's a nice find. Lew |
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8th September 2006, 07:07 AM
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Thanks Lew, one of those fuzzy moments
 . I would think it has an origin with Chokwe people. If not Chokwe proper then a closely related branch. Does anyone else feel that the books description is up for scrutiny?These days if it is not fuzzy I cannot afford it. I am finding cheaper things in shops. Bit of a turn round. Last edited by Tim Simmons; 8th September 2006 at 05:35 PM. |
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8th September 2006, 12:05 PM
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Tim, what an interesting piece......surely your example is an adze....but too ornate to be a 'working' tool.
I'm wondering whether in certain societies, carpenters (the adze is a woodworking tool), had certain status. I'm not convinced that the figure is a stylized 'westerner'......if it is...'Andy Capp' may be due some Royalties  If there is intended 'comic' symbolism I think the 'tang in the anus' is a nice touch
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