Spear
Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée - Archipel Bismarck - Îles de l´Amirauté
Vendu
800 €
Provenance
German Colonial Collection (before 1914)Taille
L: 277 cm
L: 109.1 inch
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, red and white pigment, fine ring-shaped incisions in the lower section, by a node separated from the rest of the corpus, the middle piece carved with barbs and compartments with notched ornaments, pairs of eyes might refer to stylized crocodiles, slightly dam., abrasion of paint