Two ceremonial axes "kenduaubu" or "dikurugu" ·  Papua New Guinea - Western Highlands Province, Mount Hagen area · ID: 3048836

Description

greenstone, wood, rattan, fiber string, a) blade of green-grey peridotite stone, w: 64 cm, l: 53 cm; b) blade-shaped end of wood with incised decoration and coloured pigment residues, rest., w: 57 cm, l: 41 cm

Comparing literature

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (ed.), Africa, Oceania, the Americas, and the Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art, San Francisco 2006, p. 414 f.