Zemanek-Münster

Three spears

Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain - Gazelle Peninsula, Nakanai
sold EUR 150
Provenance
Held, Passau, Germany
Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany
Size
L: 239 cm - 260 cm
L: 94.1 inch - 102.4 inch

Description

wood, dark brown patina, one half of the shaft made of wood, the other one of bamboo, which is delicately ornamented in some areas, the transition point wrapped with grass fibre, one spear with lable and old collection number “EF298”, slightly dam., binding with grass fibre partly loosened


Comparing literature

Tischner, Herbert, Dokumente verschollener Südsee-Kulturen, Bd. 38, 1981, ill. 352

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