Spear
52-42-53
From: New Britain | West Nakanai
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 52-42-53 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Lakalai |
| Provenience | New Britain | West Nakanai |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood | Feather | Shell |
| Description | Spear used only for purpose of exchange and ceremony (bride price, etc.); never used as a weapon. Cloth over about 77 cm. towards point - partly wound with strings of nassa shells and a few white feathers. Originally where cloth now is was completely wound with nassa shells. Cassowary thigh bones over point end. Hard wood shaft. |
| Length | 290.5 cm |
| Credit Line | New Guinea Ethnological Reconnaissance; Ward Goodenough, 1952 |
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