Fish Spear

42-30-471

From: New Guinea

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 42-30-471
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Bamboo
Description

Bamboo. Point missing. remains of reed foreshaft, three wide, compound bands of incised decoration made up of single bands of triangles filled with dots, bands of dots, crosshatching, herringbone, chevrons, and X's filled with slanting lines, in front of the central mode. Similar band near end. Badly split.

Length 192 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Morgan Wing on behalf of the Estate of Florence C. Whitney, 1942
Other Number 577 - Collector Number

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