Beautiful old spear with intact obsididan tip, before 1914
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
sold
EUR 500
Provenance
Old German Colonial Collection, before 1914Size
L: 238 cm
22 cm (obsidian tip)
L: 93.7 inch
8.7 inch (obsidian tip)
Description
wood, red, white and black pigment, transition area shaft/blade with ornamental engravings, inserted obsidian blade fixed by wrapping with fine cord material and parinarium nut paste, mass with Job’s tear grass seeds at the shaft, handwritten collection number in red paint at the same place “L. 135:237”, crack (upper rim of wooden case), patina of the shaft rubbed off in parts/shaft end dam.