Dagger
84-8-2
From: New Guinea | Korowori River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-8-2 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Korowori River |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Bone | Clay | Shell | Feathers |
| Description | Cassowary bone dagger with human head modelled in reddish clay at top. Cowrie shell eyes. Nassa shells inlaid around edge of jaw, across forehead, at back of head and neck. Cassowary feathers at top of head and down back of head to nape of neck. Feathers shedding. |
| Length | 33.5 cm |
| Width | 6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Walter O. Hoffman, 1984 |
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