Spear
29-89-180
From: Solomon Islands | Southwestern Bougainville
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-89-180 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Telei |
| Provenience | Solomon Islands | Southwestern Bougainville |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Bone | Peel | Plant Material | Pigment |
| Description | Compare 29-89-176. Upper group of barbs, 6 tiers; lower, 4 tiers. Incised ornament (1) cf. Frizzi, Baessler-Archiv, Sup. VI (1914), Fig. 64, 8th spear from left. This has also the semi-realistic figure of a lizard (?) at each side. (2) A second group in the middle of the shaft consists, besides two conventionalized human faces, of two human figures in the characteristic squatting posture holding between them two fishes (?). |
| Length | 257 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Captain D. Lenz, 1917 |
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