Rare lance ·  Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Archipel Bismarck - Nouvelle Bretagne - Tolai · ID: 3043135

Description

palm wood, animal skin, rattan, grass fiber, leaf material, quills, fabric,

These spears were conferred on prominent men as a kind of emblem of their success or carried by masked dancers as a sign of their power.

Littérature comparée

Conru, Kevin (ed.), Bismarck Archipelago Art, Milan 2013, p. 214, ill. 128 Heermann, Ingrid (Hg.), Form, Farbe, Phantasie, Stuttgart 2001, p. 56, ill. 14 ff.