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Flying Fox Tooth Necklace
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Flying fox tooth necklace tightly woven onto traditional, village bush twine neck band. The large flying fox is a fruit bat with a wing span of up to a metre .
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Flying fox tooth necklace tightly woven onto traditional, village bush twine neck band. The large flying fox is a fruit bat with a wing span of up to a metre .
It is commonly found in the tropics and inland the villagers build wide traps up in the trees to catch and then eat them. This large bat is considered a powerful, totemic animal throughout the whole Sepik region.
Length; 40cm / 16ins. Sepik Region.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.02 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 40 × 2 × 1 cm |
| Location | Sepik Region |
| Material | bone & shell |
| Village | Neligum |
