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29-50-411
From: New Guinea | Sepik River, 725-750 km. from mouth
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-411 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Sepik River, 725-750 km. from mouth |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Reed (plant) | Wood | Peel | Feather | Pigment |
| Description | Cane shaft, wooden foreshaft and head. The latter is flat with bilateral barbs, of which the pair near foreshaft point forward. Point inserted in cleft foreshaft under basketwork ring. Cleft end of foreshaft strengthened by lashing. Basketwork ring at insertion of foreshaft in shaft. Red feathers fastened at base of barbed head. |
| Length | 134 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 143? - Other Number | 145? - Other Number | 151? - Other Number |
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