Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17th September 2025

Lot 77

Four Papua New Guinea daggers

Estimate £200 - £300

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Description

Four Papua New Guinea daggers
Melanesia
cassowary bone, one incised a figure and another with chevrons,
17cm, 23.5cm, 26.5cm, 28.5cm long,
and two Papua New Guinea lime sticks, one carved a bird head, with pigment, fibre and shells, 35.5cm long, and the other with incised geometric decoration, 30cm long. (6)

Provenance
Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of the Solomon Islands in Israel.