Beautiful old spear with intact obsididan tip, before 1914 ·  Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands · ID: 3042346

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.

The object Beautiful old spear with intact obsididan tip, before 1914 with the object ID 3042346 was last part of the auction 86th Tribal Art Auction at May 27, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 120 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.

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