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"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris."

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