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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 149635, member: 25"]One way to distinguish airport art from tribally made and used fetish objects is the prominent genitals, male and female, and large breasts, often pendulous of the village originals, as the essence was usually fertility.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ancestor figures may not be so sexual but always include some form of relic holder to accomodate some part of the ancestor, such as a tooth, bone or hair.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not fixed rules but guidelines.</p><p><br /></p><p>The made for tourist pieces always omit the features that symbolically represented sexuality. Lets not frighten the horses or the memsahib.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 149635, member: 25"]One way to distinguish airport art from tribally made and used fetish objects is the prominent genitals, male and female, and large breasts, often pendulous of the village originals, as the essence was usually fertility. Ancestor figures may not be so sexual but always include some form of relic holder to accomodate some part of the ancestor, such as a tooth, bone or hair. Not fixed rules but guidelines. The made for tourist pieces always omit the features that symbolically represented sexuality. Lets not frighten the horses or the memsahib.[/QUOTE]
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