Four Bougainville Island spears Solomon Islands palmwood

Four Bougainville Island spears

Solomon Islands

palmwood, with carved figures, two finely bound with red and yellow grass fibre along the majority of the shaft, another with small remains, two with tightly compressed leaf knops, two with remains of grass barbs,

210cm, 275cm, 294cm and 306cm long. (4)

Provenance

London Art Market, 1920's/30's and thence by descent.

cf. Deborah White and Kevin Conru. Solomon Islands Art, The Conru Collection, 2008, p.130, p.77.