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SpearC650

Chipped obsidian blade set in wood, then in cane shaft. Geometric designs outlined with string and accented with white seeds. Obsidian blade is a bending triangle in cross section and comes to a point. From the base of the point, the design is as follows: red, white, and black triangles and diamond shapes; and eight seeds, along each and in between each white diamond shape surrounded by red.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
obsidian stone, seed, stem ?, plant fibre and paint
Made in
Admiralty Islands, Manus, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC651

Chipped obsidian blade set into wood and attached to a cane shaft. Geometric decoration, outlined with string and accented with inset beads. Obsidian blade is triangular in cross section and comes to a point. From the base of the point, the design is as follows: red, white, and black triangles; a red pyramid carved with a downward pointing white leaf point on all four sides; and four sets of four seeds around red, white, and black trapezoids.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
obsidian stone, resin, stem ?, seed, plant fibre, wood and paint
Made in
Admiralty Islands, Manus, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SpearC648

Chipped blade set into wood, then into cane shaft. Binding is decorated with black, red, and white triangles outlined with string and accented with white seeds. Obsidian blade is rectangular and angles along the edge to create a point at one side end. From the base of the point, the design is as follows: red, white, and black triangles and diamond shapes; and six seeds, one at either end and in between each white diamond shape surrounded by red.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
obsidian stone, seed, stem ?, wood, plant fibre and paint
Made in
Admiralty Islands, Manus, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubC431

Long, brown wood piece shaped like a long blunt sword with short blunt spurs on both sides of the end. Simple geometric design carving emphasized with white pigment at the end with the short blunt spurs. A ridge goes down the middle of each side. Near the handle end, there are two circular upward flaring cross-guard-like features that go around.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
wood and pigment ?
Made in
New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SculptureIg411

Long, tall wood sculpture. Has green oval inset eyes surrounded bya downward curving red band pointing toward the thin nose which has a bit of hair ? underneath at either side. The open red mouth is showing black teeth. Has a red body with the hands holding a long, thin serrated object in front of it while a smaller length of the same serration is at either side to the elbows. Wearing a tall headdress that is has a black helmet-like feature with four thin upward curving protrusions all around that are decorated with serrations and downward pointing red and black triangles. Standing on a plain, cylindrical wood pedestal.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
wood, hair ?, glass ? and paint
Made in
New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ClubIe414

Pineapple-like head held in place with woven bands. The red-brown wood handle is decorated with woven bands, some plain and some fringed. The dark grey-black head has three horizontal rows of sixteen triangular protrusions all around. Underneath and through the hollow, cylindrical head, there is a long light-coloured woven band. Below, there is an upward flaring, red-brown fringe and two brown woven bands. At the end of the handle, there is a brown woven band coiled around with a downward flaring, red-brown fringe.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
wood, hemp fibre and coconut husk fibre
Made in
Rigo, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow1711/10

Bamboo arrow with pointed tip and geometric design carved into the bamboo near the tip. The design is accented with orange-red, white and brown pigment. The end of the arrow is notched and has thin strands of fibre wrapped around it. Fibre wrapped around the shaft, approximately one third of the way along the length from the tip.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
bamboo grass, wood, resin ?, clay ?, fibre and pigment
Made in
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow1711/8

Bamboo arrow with pointed tip and geometric design carved into the bamboo near the tip. The design is accented with orange-red, white and brown pigment. The end of the arrow is notched and has thin strands of fibre wrapped around it. Fibre wrapped around the shaft, approximately one third of the way along the length from the tip.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
bamboo grass, clay ?, fibre, wood, resin ? and pigment
Made in
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow1711/6

Bamboo arrow with pointed tip and geometric design carved into the bamboo near the tip. The design is accented with orange-red, white and brown pigment. The end of the arrow is notched. Fibre wrapped around the shaft, approximately one third of the way along the length from the tip.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
bamboo grass, wood, pigment, fibre, clay ? and resin ?
Made in
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Arrow1711/5

Bamboo arrow with pointed tip and geometric design carved into the bamboo near the tip. The design is accented with orange-red, white and brown pigment. The end of the arrow is notched. Fibre wrapped around the shaft, approximately one third of the way along the length from the tip.

Culture
Western Melanesia
Material
bamboo grass, clay ?, fibre, wood, resin ? and pigment
Made in
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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