SHAMAN DIVINATION BOX FROM PAIWAN TRIBE ( 1950 )
This Shaman divination box is carved with tribal tattoo hands on one side and ancestor pot, hundred pacer snakes and sun on the other . The 2 others narrow sides are carved with geometric patterns and inlaid with shell. The cover slips in notches and is carved with 2 hundred pacer snakes heads. All the surface is painted in red except the cover.

PERIOD :

Around 1940/1950

DIMENSIONS :

Length : 12 cm
Height : 15,5 cm
Width : 5 cm

MATERIAL :

Wood, Shell, String, Red painting