Spear
29-50-459
From: New Guinea | Kararau
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-459 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Kararau |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Fur | Feather | Peel |
| Description | Wooden. Head of palmwood simulating bamboo. Carved decoration of flattened part of shaft near head includes what appear to be two human masks highly conventionalized, turned in the same direction. Cus-cus fur and stripped feathers at junction of shaft with head. |
| Length | 313 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 159 - Other Number |
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