Extremly scarce spear from the Chendrawasih bay with carved ancestor figure in the shaft, iron blade and casuaris feather bundle. 

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see also the work of De Clercq and Schmeltz, ethnographische bescrijving van de west en noordkust van Nederlandsch Nieuw Guinea

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for a comparable piece see link 

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dating from around 1880

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Size: 230  cm.

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