Rare spear · Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain - Tolai · ID: 3043135
sold
EUR 850
Provenance
Heinrich Füllbeck, Munich, GermanySize
L: 218 cm
L: 85.8 inch
Description
palm wood, animal skin, rattan, grass fiber, leaf material, quills, fabric,
These spears were conferred on prominent men as a kind of emblem of their success or carried by masked dancers as a sign of their power.
Comparing literature
Conru, Kevin (ed.), Bismarck Archipelago Art, Milan 2013, p. 214, ill. 128 Heermann, Ingrid (Hg.), Form, Farbe, Phantasie, Stuttgart 2001, p. 56, ill. 14 ff.