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Sago serving dish
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Sago serving dish

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The Sawos peoples from the Middle Sepik River Region of Papua New Guinea make these beautiful bowls to serve sago, a starch made from the pulp of native palm trees. The bowls are often decorated with abstract representations of Sawos beliefs and imagery. The design on this bowl is called "bandicoot's nest." A bandicoot is a small marsupial indig...
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