Head cutter
- Museum number:
- 11-926
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110000926
- 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:
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- Legacy documentation:
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