Three spears · Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago - New Britain - Gazelle Peninsula, Nakanai · ID: 3033674
sold
EUR 150
Provenance
Held, Passau, GermanyManfred 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