Dagger
84-8-1
From: New Guinea | Korowori River
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 84-8-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Korowori River |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Bone | Shell | Plant Fiber |
| Description | Cassowary bone dagger with decorative appendage consisting of three strips of woven fiber covered with rows of nassa shells. Scrap of red fabric knotted through conus shell disc at juncture of the three fiber strips, conus shell rings at their ends. Some nassa shells missing, especially from the center strip. |
| Length | 38.2 cm |
| Width | 4.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Walter O. Hoffman, 1984 |
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