Large Hand Carved Heavy Ash Wood Sculptural Universal Symbol for a Galaxy

Indigenous cultures world wide have have carved or painted this symbol on cave walls throughout history to symbolize galaxies in the night skies. While our modern day scientist are just identifying this swirl of mass to indicate the many galaxies throughout the universe. It’s when a mass of matter forms to build what we might identify as our own Milky Way galaxy, that these swirls of color and haze take shape to form all the known galaxies in the seeable Universe. They can be seen through modern day telescopes, but how did all these native cultures know to draw the swirling colorful masses with no “modern” technology. The stand is custom made. I found this sculpture from a Los Angeles art dealer