Dance stick, wood, axe shape at one end, spearhead shape at other end, carved relief and painted figures on both sides of spearhead; center shaft wrapped with fiber; black, red, yellow, green. 132.0 cm.
Donor:
Caroline Mytinger
Collection place:
New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, Islands Region
Culture or time period:
Melanesian
Collector:
Caroline Mytinger
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama