Arrowhead

78-6-4B

From: New Guinea | Western Highlands, New Guinea (uncertain) | Mount Hagen (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 78-6-4B
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience New Guinea | Western Highlands, New Guinea (uncertain) | Mount Hagen (uncertain)
Date Made Before 1977
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Plant Fiber
Description

At the bottom of the head is a small cylindrical ring of woven fiber. There is another such ring part way up the head of the spear before the barbs are carved. There are nineteen sets of four barbs each. Tip is four sided.

Credit Line Gift of Eleanor Hughes Barber, 1978

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