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97-120-1025

From: New Guinea

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 97-120-1025
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea
Section Oceanian
Materials Bamboo | Wood | Peel
Description

Bone point, hardwood foreshaft inserted into cane shaft. Junction of point and foreshaft and also junction of foreshaft and shaft wrapped with plant cuticle covered with white clay. The foreshaft is divided into bands, four of them painted red and bordered with narrow bands of black lines; three of them left natural.

Credit Line Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number L-120-1025 - Old Museum Number | unknown - ANSP Number

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