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Papua New Guinea Papuan dagger This dagger is made of bone a…
See original version (French)
283
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Papua New Guinea Papuan dagger This dagger is made of bone a…
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
Papua New Guinea Papuan dagger This dagger is made of bone and decorated with plant fibre braiding and four pendants made from plant seeds and cassowary feathers. The blade has notches at the tip and striations.
Blade length 33 cm
Blade width 3 cm
Diameter of dagger head 5 cm
Provenance: > Collected in situ by a French journalist in the early 1980s,
> The dagger is an important object in Papuan culture, symbolising strength and virility. Papuans prefer to make them from human bones and also from cassowary bones. The cassowary is considered a mythological relative of humans. The entire cassowary is exploited: the meat, feathers and bones are used to make ornaments, objects, tools and weapons.
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