Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022
Lot 374
Five Abelam daggers
Estimate £400 - £500 | Hammer £350
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Description
Five Abelam daggers
Papua New Guinea
cassowary bone, with stylised carving including faces and a lizard, one with a handwritten label Turay gwartu S. Wos. 28.8.62,
the longest 38.5cm. (5)
Provenance
Anthony Forge, 1929 - 1992, Anthropologist.