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Lot 264

Two Spearpoints, Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea

11 November 2019, 15:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$4,450 inc. premium

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Two Spearpoints, Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea

lengths 16 1/4 and 17in (41 and 43cm)

Provenance
Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

One carved with a full figure in the center with a finely woven fiber and beaded binding above and inset with two stingray (Dasyatis fluviorum) stinging spines on top; the other with a squared face and finely incised mid-section above a finely woven fiber binding.

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