Lot Essay
The first inscribed: L.1602/679 Melanesien K.M.B. Admiral. Ins. 103300
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AN ADMIRALTY ISLANDS SPEAR TIP AND TWO SPEARS
The spear tip carved as a figure in the jaws of a crocodile, the six bone barbs bound with twisted fibre with inset red and white beads, the whole painted red and white; the spears each with obsidian point and bamboo shaft, one with painted geometric ornament and inset Job's tears to the wood head
The longest 145.5cm. (3)
The spear tip carved as a figure in the jaws of a crocodile, the six bone barbs bound with twisted fibre with inset red and white beads, the whole painted red and white; the spears each with obsidian point and bamboo shaft, one with painted geometric ornament and inset Job's tears to the wood head
The longest 145.5cm. (3)
Provenance
Linden Museum, Stuttgart, for the first
Special notice
Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.