Spear

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Description

palmwood, reddish brown patina, some areas dyed in black, round shaft, carved with two slit-shaped cutouts above the nodus in the middle, fibre binding with yellow gleichenia fern and wicker dyed red with “kikiri” root, the tip carved with notches, dam., missing parts (tip)

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Comparing literature

Hurst, Norman, Power and Prestige, Cambridge 1996, p. 28 Burt, Ben, Body ornaments of Malaita, London 2009, p. 130 f.

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