Rare lance

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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.

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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.

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