Spear

oceania | Admiralty Islands

Spear

Admiralty Islands

Ceremonial spear

Carved wood, piments, fiber, obsidian blade
19th or early 20th century
Height : 81 in. (206 cm)

Collected during the Korrigane expedition (1934-1936)
Inventory number / Loan to Musée de l’Homme Paris: #D39-3/ 2015
Ex private collection Paris

Published: “Le Voyage de la Korigane dans les Mers du Sud”, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, 2001

Published: Pure Forms, 2014

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