04-25-2011, 12:05 AM
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Re: Could that be a banana corm?
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Originally Posted by bikoro child
"Now I am wondering if this could have been carved from the corm of a banana. I cannot see any layering, as would be produced by the leaves, but I do not know, if such layering would occur in the corm."
Hi i think it could be a bamboo root...
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Hi Ivan,
I have to give it to you, you sure know your bamboo roots.
I have been back to Vietnam this winter and learned more about these carvings and it is all explained in these two
pictures (sorry about the reflections:
This one gives you an overall view of the sign, which caught my attention.
And here I have enlarged the written text, which explains how this bamboo root art came about.
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