Spear with bipartite tip · Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands · ID: 3034588
sold
EUR 3,000
Provenance
Paul Merz (German Government Secretary on Jaluit, Marshall Islands, 1910 -1914);Confirmation of his granddaughter Dottore Karin Campana-Bloch, Lomagna, Italy available
Size
L: 260 cm
L: 102.4 inch
Description
wood, the shaft reflecting the natural form of the branch, intermediate piece carved with anthropomorphic face, two tips with barbs (copy of a ray spike), fixed by cord and a coating of parinarium nut paste, rhomb pattern accentuated with red, black and white pigment, originally attached Job’s tears now missing, slightly dam. (face), paint rubbed off
The object Spear with bipartite tip with the object ID 3034588 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 37 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,000.
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