Local Name
Tumpuny
Physical Description
Carved wooden Owl. Roughly rectangular body with irregular oval cross-section. It stands on three prongs representing two legs and a tail. The entire surface is carved with red-brown ochre and details of the face are painted in with black ochre. Holes have been drilled to represent ages and a beak and a double band of holes runs down the back of the figure.
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100 mm (Length), 120 mm (Width), 300 mm (Height), 1.18 kg (Weight)
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Indigenous Region
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