LARGE Chambri / Aibom Pottery Cooking Pot - Papua New Guinea (Ex. 1970's Collection) This large pottery bowl, or cooking pot, called a "kombi" was used as an open cooking pot for cooking, for example, pork, crocodile and, historically, human meat. It was part of a large private collection of artefacts collected from the region of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea in the early 1970's. The outer wall is elaborately decorated with three animalistic faces and other decorative patterns. There are chips to the ends of two of the "beaks" and to the inner rim. A section of the wall has also been broken out and re-stuck and there is a stabilised crack to the wall. Diameter 49 cm, height 26.5 cm