Group of 35 spears ·  Papua New Guinea - Highlands, Heba · ID: 3033650

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.

The object Group of 35 spears with the object ID 3033650 was part of the auction 70th tribal art auction on September 8, 2012. The object with the lot number 45 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,600 with an asking price of EUR 500.

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