Spear-thrower
- Museum number:
- 11-37755
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110037755
- Accession number:
- Acc.1915
- Description:
- spearthrower; bamboo shaft split and carved; carved wood figure of bird attached near center with plaited rattan; other rattan plaiting near one end
- Donor:
- Ellsworth La Boyteaux and Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux
- Collection place:
- Middle Sepik river, East Sepik Province, Momase Region
- Culture or time period:
- Papuan
- Collector:
- Bruce D. Lawes
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Plaited weaving and Woomeras (spear-throwers)
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- 1964
- Department:
- Oceania
- Loans:
- S1977-1978 #50: Howe Homestead (City of Walnut Creek) (April 11, 1978–June 7, 1978)
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