Zemanek-Münster

Rare spear ·  Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain - Tolai · ID: 3043135

sold EUR 850
Provenance
Heinrich Füllbeck, Munich, Germany
Size
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.


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