Dagger

Museum number:
11-37704
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1915
Description:
Dagger, of human bone, with incised designs; horizontal chevron bands and triangles; holes for transverse stick in handle.
Donor:
Ellsworth La Boyteaux and Mrs. Ellsworth La Boyteaux
Collection place:
April River Tributary, Upper Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
Verbatim coll. place:
vicinity of April R. tributary
Culture or time period:
New Guinea, Papua Island
Collector:
Bruce D. Lawes
Materials:
Bone (material)
Taxon:
Homo sapiens
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1964
Department:
Human remains
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Dagger, accession number 11-37704, described as Dagger, of human bone, with incised designs; horizontal chevron bands and triangles; holes for transverse stick in handle.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Dagger, accession number 11-37704, described as Dagger, of human bone, with incised designs; horizontal chevron bands and triangles; holes for transverse stick in handle.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Dagger, accession number 11-37704, described as Dagger, of human bone, with incised designs; horizontal chevron bands and triangles; holes for transverse stick in handle.

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