A Papua New Guinea bow Melanesia palmwood with lozenge carved decoration to the ends

A Papua New Guinea bow

Melanesia

palmwood with lozenge carved decoration to the ends, the hand written identification label NATIVE BOW NEW GUINEA SAVAGE COLL; P. 1059,

187.5cm long.

Provenance

Edwin Bentley Savage Collection

Augustus H. Lane Fox Pitt Rivers Collection, Farnham, Dorset., acquired from above 20 October 1894.

Mrs Stella Pitt Rivers, Farnham, Dorset.

Sotheby's, London, 30 March 1981, lot 51 part.

Pitt Rivers notes from Savage that the bow is from Motumdu in the Elema district