Spear

29-89-281

From: New Britain | Bismarck Archipelago | Gazelle Peninsula

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 29-89-281
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Lakalai
Provenience New Britain | Bismarck Archipelago | Gazelle Peninsula
Section Oceanian
Description

See Parkinson, Dreissig Jahre..., pp. 225 and 226, and figs. 30 and 31. The area decorated with nassa shells and feathers shows other feathers beside white cockatoo (3 bunches). The "layer of thin palm leaves" is replaced by a sleeve of red cotton cloth.

Length 294 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Captain D. Lenz, 1917

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