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Pestle Finial

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Stone, Highlands Mt. Hagen region
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Discovery Communications Inc. Gift 1996
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Title: Pestle Finial
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Stone, Highlands Mt.
Hagen region.

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