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Arrow
(early 20th century)

Medium
wood, cane, bone, fibre, pigment

Measurements
160.8 × 1.7 × 1.3 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Hilda Richards, 1973
© the artists

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Papuan Region, Papua New Guinea

Accession Number
ETH9-1973

Department
Pacific Art

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Physical description
Double ancestor figure carved at the top below the band. The shaft is of bamboo with wooden head attached by fine plaited cane. The head is tipped with bone. The barbed head is a panel running around the arrow of finely incised double ancestor figures. Traces of lime or white pigment.