Dagger with obsidian blade · Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands · ID: 3051941
sold
EUR 700
Provenance
Geert Hendrik van de Zee, The NetherlandsBerry de Bruijn, Breda, The Netherlands
German Collection, Berlin
Size
H: 26,5 cm
H: 10.4 inch
Description
parinarium putty (handle), pigments, handwritten collection label “N.G. 35 (52993) Obsidiandolch Trobriand eil.”, base
Comparing literature
Ohnemus, Sylvia, Zur Kultur der Admiralitäts-Insulaner in Melanesien, Basel 1996, p. 383, ill. 454