Group of four spears, before 1914
Papua New Guinea - Astrolabe Bay
sold
EUR 400
Provenance
Heinrich Füllbeck, Munich, GermanySize
L: 246 cm - 295 cm
L: 96.9 inch - 116.1 inch
Description
shafts and lancet-shaped spear tips made from nippa palmwood, transition points shaft/tip fixed with broad cuffs from rattan, resp. orchid bast, wooden pieces inserted into the cuffs most probably for stabilization of the tips, two shafts carved with stylized squatting figures, two shaft endings carved with bulging rings, slightly dam.