Sepik Art
The tribes living along the river produce magnificent wood carvings and artful clay pottery. Many tribes use garamut drums in rituals; the drums are formed from long, hollowed-out tree trunks carved into the shape of various totem animals. In part of an elaborate coming of age ceremony, young men are scarified with the image of a crocodile on a riverbank.
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