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Every object hangs at its own angle and its own length, so the piece has real depth and movement rather than sitting flat, more a field of charms than a textile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis style of shirt was worn by Bamum tribal hunters in the Grasslands of Cameroon for protection in the forest, from wild animals and from dangerous spirits. 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The teak has gone pale and silvery in places, split and softened in others, and every one of those marks is time made visible. Run your hand over the beads and you feel the tool that shaped them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt carries the weight of the building it came from, and four hundred years of the lives that passed beneath it. A genuine architectural salvage from India, hand carved and roughly four centuries old, offered here through Organic Erotic. 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