Bone dagger · Papua New Guinea - Sepik · ID: 3032616
Paul Mißner, Stuttgart, Germany
Description
bone, polished, dark patina rubbed into the deepenings, split and sharpened, decorated with notched ornaments and two cowrie snails, band of plaited plant fibres, collection label “L.2/129 Knochen Dolch N. Guinea” and inscription “L.2/129 Sepik A. Kr.”, min. dam., slight traces of usage;
bone daggers were stuck into a plaited band on the upper arm, they were used as weapon for hunting and for fighting. Besides of this they had ceremonial function as well, above all those, which were made of human bone.
The object Bone dagger with the object ID 3032616 was part of the auction 69th tribal art auction on June 2, 2012. The object with the lot number 80 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,300 with an asking price of EUR 350.
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