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Carved, bamboo penis sheath cut from an inter node, which has been left solid at the bottom. The mouth of the sheath has been cut into a V shaped with one of the two points at the top bearing evidence of a broken piercing for attachment of a suspension cord. Much of the surface is engraved with a key motif of circumferential lines meandering back and forth.
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