TWO KWOMA BONE DAGGERS

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TWO KWOMA BONE DAGGERS

The smaller one incised with a central band of circles and concentric arcs between two double bands of zig-zag designs, two cowrie shell inlays at top; the larger with three bands of highly stylized human faces between a band of zig-zag designs with inlaid cowries, string at back, the first:13in. (33cm.); the second:15in. (38.1cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Newton (1989, p. 308, no. 3) illustrates two similar examples in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.