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special! Tribal wooden double bowl - Paiwan - South Taiwan - special! A double tribal wooden bowl - Paiwan - South Taiwan, 20th century, which was intended for an ancient kinship ceremony and to sanctify their headhunting ability, carved from a whole piece of elongated dark wood, two ends in the shape of antelope heads, in the center two bowls with pointed ends, decorated around with native heads, in the center two snakes. Width: 87cm, 970g. Light wear, light abrasions. * Paiwan - Taiwanese indigenous assortment of Austronesian descent, and their Piwan language, a Formosan language from southern Taiwan. They are known for their hierarchical and class-based society with hereditary aristocracy, rich ancestral traditions that include woodcarving and beadwork, and origin myths involving a large snake.