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Solomon Islands carved coconut used in the practice of teeth blackening

31/05/2021 By Oceanic Art Society Australia

Clémentine Débrosse In 1568, Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira was the first European to visit the Archipelago now known as the Solomon Islands. At the time, Mendaña y Neira was looking for the island of Ophir on which King Solomon’s treasure was supposed to be – a story from which originates the naming of the […]
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