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29-58-100

From: Solomon Islands

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 29-58-100
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Solomon Islands
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Cane (plant) | Pigment
Description

Cane shaft, palmwood point. For the bulge in the latter and the simple carved rings and notches, cf. the details of the carving of the arrow points in fig. 60 (lower row) of Frizzi, Beitrag sur Ethnologie von Bougainville und Buka, Beiheft VI (1914), Baessler-Archiv. For the binding in front of the shallow nock and that at the insertion of the point, cf. 29-58-98 and 99. See also Frizzi, p. 39.

Length 144.5 cm
Credit Line Received from various sources, pre-1929

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