paddle (water transport: accessories)

Early tourist art wooden paddle engraved in its entirely with Double K, cross, stacked crescent and motifs. The butt flares slightly into the form of a conical pommel, with a hemispherical cupule behind eight abstracted humanoid figures with tree rosettes across the top of each head.

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