Spear with bipartite tip
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - Admirality Islands
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