"Bis" Poles - Asmat, Indonesia, Papua Province (Irian Jaya), late 1950s

"Each pole is carved from a single piece of wood. To create the pole's distinctive form, carvers select trees with plank-like buttress roots. During carving, all but one of the roots are removed, and the tree is inverted, so that the remaining root forms the wing-like projection at the top."

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