Old spear with obsidian tip · Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Archipel Bismarck - Îles de l´Amirauté · ID: 3042017
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Provenance
William Downing Webster, Bicester, England (1863-1913)Description
bamboo shaft, fine carved wooden tip: human half figure emerging from elongated crocodile snout, fixing with original cord material and “atuna” putty, obsidian tip with remains of handwritten collection number “3631”, remains of red and white pigment, slightly dam. (bamboo shaft), minor missing parts (one ear of the crocodile, putty), abrasion of paint, base
Littérature comparée
Kaufmann, Christian & Christin Kocher Schmid et. al., Admirality islands, Zurich 2002, p. 202 ff.