Bed Part (uncertain)

Spear Foreshaft (uncertain)

42-30-472

From: Admiralty Islands

Curatorial Section: Oceanian

Object Number 42-30-472
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Admiralty Islands
Section Oceanian
Materials Wood | Pigment
Description

Wooden, rectangular in section. Completely covered with panels of incised decoration of triangles, romboids, slanting lines, etc. with most of the background filled with white pipe clay. A slightly offset head has a projecting peg in the center and a perforation in each corner (for attachment of blade?).

Length 179 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Morgan Wing on behalf of the Estate of Florence C. Whitney, 1942
Other Number 113X - Collector Number

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