Group of four spears, before 1914 ·  Papua New Guinea - Astrolabe Bay · ID: 3043094

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.