Group of lime spatulas and bone daggers ·  Papua New Guinea - East Sepik Province, Iatmul · ID: 3051802

Description

6 pcs., cassowary bone, two lime spatulas “ava toop” with hornbill heads, plant fiber, l: 37.5 cm & 38.5 cm, and a bone dagger, incised with the face of an ancestral spirit, l: 30.5 cm; Sepik bone dagger with fine detail: a toothpick-like bone fragment fixed on the back with a leather strip, l: 33.5 cm.

comes with: bone knife, finely serrated in places on both sides, l: 18.5 cm and bone spatula, l: 24 cm

Comparing literature

Friede, John & Marcia, New Guinea Art, Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection, Vol. 1, San Francisco 2005, cat. 192