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flute

Flute; carved from hippopotamus bone; curved piece of hollow bone, diamond-shaped opening carved at centre, human figure with hands on chest and knees folded up above diamond, human face carved below diamond, decorated with carved circles with holes at centre; twisted fibre cord wrapped around one end, and in band above and below diamond.

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