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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4270470, member: 2844"]Welcome Leslie.</p><p>In general I recommend starting a new thread for a new item. But since your boat seems to be the same as the boat in this 2017(!) thread, it is very likely to be a buffalo horn model of a dragon boat made in Kerala, India.</p><p>The words snake and dragon can both be used, since the mythological being is a Naga, which is usually a cross between a snake and a dragon. Nagas are important creatures in Asian mythology. Water Nagas are a specific and very powerful kind of Naga, often associated with ancestors, which is why many Asian countries have 'Dragonboat' festivals.</p><p>Kerala is known for buffalo horn carvings. True buffalo, that is, not bison.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4270470, member: 2844"]Welcome Leslie. In general I recommend starting a new thread for a new item. But since your boat seems to be the same as the boat in this 2017(!) thread, it is very likely to be a buffalo horn model of a dragon boat made in Kerala, India. The words snake and dragon can both be used, since the mythological being is a Naga, which is usually a cross between a snake and a dragon. Nagas are important creatures in Asian mythology. Water Nagas are a specific and very powerful kind of Naga, often associated with ancestors, which is why many Asian countries have 'Dragonboat' festivals. Kerala is known for buffalo horn carvings. True buffalo, that is, not bison.;)[/QUOTE]
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