Fish Spear

29-50-489

From: New Guinea | Vogumash

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 29-50-489
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Vogumash
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Vegetable Fiber | Pigment
Description

Multiple-pointed. A tube of basketwork (painted) holds six pointed wooden splints in one end and in the other a long wooden shaft of flattened cross-section called a "fish spear"

Length 292.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924
Other Number 130 - Other Number

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