Group of 35 spears · Papua New Guinea - Highlands, Heba · ID: 3033650
sold
EUR 1,600
Provenance
collected in situ (1977)Size
L: ca. 125 cm
L: ca. 49.2 inch
Description
each with bamboo shaft, 12 of them with wooden tips of various forms, the remaining provided with bamboo tips and wooden intermediate piece, which is ornamentally carved and dyed with white and red pigment, fixed with rotan cuffs and blackish resin-like mass, in good condition;
spears with a long, thin and flexible shaft were thrown, they were used for distant combat. They served as currency money as well and were used for compensation for resolution of disputes.