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58-17-68B

From: New Guinea

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 58-17-68B
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea
Section Oceanian
Materials Cane (plant) | Wood | Peel
Description

Made of cane shaft with carved wooden tips. A has split cane wrapping on shaft topped with a fiber band of brown and yellow over juncture of tip and shaft. Middle three-quarters of tip is squared and has fine serrations carved in alternate series down the edges; each series is about 4.5 cm. Below serrations show signs of red paint. Shaft of B is similar to A but wrapping is looser and shows that a leaf (?) was put underneath; small fiber bands, one of natural, one of yellow. Tip is a half-circle in cross section, and four long barbs are carved from the flat side; barbs are graduated in size from tip down so that bottom is longest and the free portion is 5.5 cm. long. Barbs show red paint.

Length 136 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Harry B. Wright, 1958

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