Deux lances de cérémonie, avant 1914
Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Archipel Bismarck - Île St. Matthias
Vendu
600 €
Provenance
Old German Colonial Collection, before 1914Taille
L: 242 cm
L: 95.3 inch
Description
nippa palmwood, white pigment, plant fibre tufts, cord, shafts thickened to the tip and carved with barbs to one side, spear end mortized in bamboo spout, one of the spears inscribed “101 I”, traces of old age, crack (bamboo spout of one of the spears)