Head cutter

Museum number:
11-926
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.18
Description:
Knife, bamboo, for cutting off heads, plaited binding.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Papua New Guinea
Verbatim coll. place:
Brit. New Guinea
Culture or time period:
New Guinea, Papua Island
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Bamboo (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Plaited weaving
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
November 26, 1901
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1929: Los Angeles Natural History Museum (May 1929–1945)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Head cutter, accession number 11-926, described as Knife, bamboo, for cutting off heads, plaited binding.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Head cutter, accession number 11-926, described as Knife, bamboo, for cutting off heads, plaited binding.

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