Spear · Solomon Islands · ID: 3033421
sold
EUR 1,800
Provenance
Old English Private CollectionSize
L: 137,5 cm
L: 54.1 inch
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)
Comparing literature
Hurst, Norman, Power and Prestige, Cambridge 1996, p. 28 Burt, Ben, Body ornaments of Malaita, London 2009, p. 130 f.