Arrow Shaft

78-6-3A

From: New Guinea | Western Highlands, New Guinea (uncertain) | Mount Hagen (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 78-6-3A
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Western Highlands, New Guinea (uncertain) | Mount Hagen (uncertain)
Date Made Before 1977
Section Oceanian
Materials Cane (plant) | Wood | Peel | Vegetable Fiber
Description

Dark reed spear undecorated at basal end. Other end of foreshaft has wrapped reed. At this end attached the head of the spear. Reed foreshaft cracked.

Length 113 cm
Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Hughes Barber, 1978

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