Spear ·  Solomon Islands · ID: 3033421

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)

The object Spear with the object ID 3033421 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 72 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,800.

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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.