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Very strange carving

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I bought a job lot of carvings last week , some typical Tongan tourist pieces, and some older oceanic, but this one really stands out as strange,even a bit freaky. I suspect it is from the Solomon Islands, as were a few others and the shell inlays are similar.
Don't know if anyone has seen anything like it, but it is interesting.

See similarity of inlay here

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Looks like two Solomon Island war clubs carved on the side

Looks like John Carpenter's "The Thing Visits the South Pacific!"

Yup, pretty freakin' strange.

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