Spear
29-50-454
From: New Guinea | Kararau
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 29-50-454 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Kararau |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Cane (plant) | Peel | Vegetable Fiber |
| Description | Wooden. Bamboo head (imitated in palm wood?). Carved decoration includes two human masks turned in opposite directions on each side of flattened part of shaft near head. Extremity to which head is lashed ends in carved representation of hornbill. |
| Length | 288.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Max Boehmig through Emil Roehrig (Barthels Mfg. Co.), 1924 |
| Other Number | 102 - Other Number |
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