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50-21-161

From: Solomon Islands | Buka Island (uncertain) | Bougainville (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 50-21-161
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Solomon Islands | Buka Island (uncertain) | Bougainville (uncertain)
Section Oceanian
Materials Cane (plant) | Wood
Description

Plain palmwood point, cane shaft, no nock. Shaft decoration: on 2nd internode (counting from the butt) andoon 4th-9th plain hatched band with open strips: on 3rd internode hatched band with dentate upper border; on 10th internode ring of three triangles with oblique line drawn from apex. Cf. P 4890, etc. for this last element of design. Distal portion of last internode before point blackened.

Length 138.8 cm
Credit Line Gift of Charles J. Moore, 1950
Other Number L-9-161 - Other Number

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