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SpearIe301
Spear, nearly round in cross-section, straight unadorned shaft tapering slightly to point. Lanceolate point part of human arm bone is eighteen cm. long to the shaft and hollow for two-thirds of the length. Cut away to leave a flat projection which is bound to the shaft. Mounting covered by a sleeve of woven rattan six cm. wide. Point and sleeve are coloured with red ochre.
- Culture
- Kewa
- Material
- human bone, ochre pigment, rattan and palm wood
- Made in
- Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
ArrowIe305
An arrow shaft, 79 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit (sword grass). Light brown near the fore-shaft, darkening to black at the end from a coating of a black substance. The fore-shaft of black palm wood, 24.5 cm. long between the point and the shaft, is incised with a pattern of elongated dots and wavy lines coated with red ochre. The fore-shaft is bound to the shaft with sleeve of woven rattan 2 cm. wide. The long point is of hollow bone with a broken tip, bound to the fore-shaft with a sleeve of woven rattan.
- Culture
- Kewa
- Material
- rattan, bone, fibre, ochre pigment and resin
- Made in
- Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
ArrowIe304
An arrow shaft, 88 cm. long, made of a variety of pitpit (sword grass). Light brown near the fore-shaft is darkening to black at the butt due to a black coating. The fore-shaft of black palm wood, 18 cm. long, is inserted into the shaft and bound with a woven sleeve of rattan 1.5 cm. wide. The fore-shaft is incised with dots and zigzag lines. The long point is made of solid bone, protruding 6.5 cm. beyond the fore-shaft and bound to it with a band of bark cord 10 cm. wide and a sleeve of woven rattan 1.5 cm. wide coated with red and yellow ? ochre.
- Culture
- Kewa
- Material
- rattan, bone, grass, black palm wood, resin, ochre pigment and bark
- Made in
- Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
Digging StickIe300
Brown wood stick of a very elongated, thin paddle shape that is a flattened oval in cross-section. One end is pointed while the flatter end is rounded.
- Culture
- Kewa
- Material
- casuarina wood ?
- Made in
- Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
BowIe303
A very long plain dark bow without string. The bow has a flattened oval appearance with one flat side in cross section (one side flat, one side convex.), tapering from the centre to the ends. There is a raised ridge around the bow at both ends. One end has a cassowary claw, which is now broken. The opposite has two woven sleeves, probably rattan, each 1 cm. wide. The flat side of the bow is coated with thick resinous substance, now flaking off.
- Culture
- Kewa
- Material
- black palm wood, rattan ? and pandanus leaf ?
- Made in
- Iapi, Southern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia