Fiji neckrest

Fiji Islands Neckrest

kali,  carved in sections from vesi intsia bijuge wood, the elegant pillow of cylindrical form and tapering slightly towards each end, the terminus on the cross piece deeply incised with concentric circles, and supported by two sets of anthropomorphic legs fashioned as bulbous human thighs, and terminating in flat pad-like feet, two carved with delicately tooled margins, and attached with strands of braided coconut fiber, magimagi, concealed within the cavity between the thighs, stone carved and finished with a sharkskin rasp.
length 12 1/4 in. 30.5cm

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