Ceremonial axe · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Mount Hagen · ID: 3033618
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Provenance
collected in situ by the German radio officer Lehr, on duty for North German Lloyd (on a ship caled “Friderum”), 1921-1928Description
wooden shaft, plaited rattan cuff, green blade, min. dam. (plaited cuff), minor missing parts (blade, shaft);
axes of that kind were produced for ceremonial purposes, because of their great value they were used as primitive money as well.
Littérature comparée
Aumann, Georg, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Neu Guinea, Coburg 1986, p. 148, ill. 343