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Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure this charming oil lamp features

Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure this charming oil lamp features

Name: Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure this charming oil lamp features
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SKU: 50613210771
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Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure this charming oil lamp featuresAsmat people, early to mid 20th century, Irian Jaya (Papua), Indonesia Beautiful early cassowary bone dagger, finely worked and decorated with delicate incised line motifs. Daggers of this type are known as pi pisuwe, while those carved from human femur were reserved for the most sacred and high status contexts. Although carried during displays of warfare, bone daggers were principally used in ritual killings, initiations, and ceremonial attire,

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this charming oil lamp features a rounded body adorned with a greenish slip paint finish

thin-walled

often taking weeks or months to complete

roughly 7000 to 4500 years ago

Nora Schultz

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