Spear

50-21-176

From: New Hebrides (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 50-21-176
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Hebrides (uncertain)
Section Oceanian
Materials Bamboo | Wood
Description

Long tapering bamboo shaft with blackened palmwood point. At insertion of point the bamboo has burnt decoration of rounded oblongs almost bisected longitudinally by blackened slender curvilinear triangular areas. The alternate halves of the former have transverse tiers of short blackened strokes.

Length 301 cm
Credit Line Gift of Charles J. Moore, 1950
Other Number L-9-176 - Old Loan Number

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