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13th October 2008, 08:42 PM
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Looks like from New Guinea, they used palmwood for spears (and bows) a lot there. Also used in Solomon Islands.
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13th October 2008, 09:00 PM
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Thanks Colin my thoughts also. It is an old piece.
Freddy it looks like a Briton you can tell by the slippers   .
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14th October 2008, 01:57 AM
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Does look New Guinea. Possibly Fly River area.
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14th October 2008, 02:28 PM
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Hi Tim,
very nice....no 'tip' damage...and full length .. Be careful with that thing you might poke someones eye out ......and judging by your 'black eye' ...its already happened to you   Regards David |
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14th October 2008, 07:31 PM
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It is a nice piece, and I agree, it doesn't look like anything from Polynesia or Micronesia. The asymmetric teeth are interesting.
Great find. Like the native mask on your model, too. F |
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14th October 2008, 09:09 PM
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It seems that Palm wood was used in New Britain, New Ireland and other Islands. Strangely in a book I have on the Admiralty Islands the spears are obsidian or ray spine tipped. Does not mean they were exclusively so.
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14th October 2008, 10:28 PM
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Just found this pic from "Shields of Melanesia, University of Hawai'i press"
San Christobal, Solomon Islands. Among the many varried examples present in the book this appears almost identical even seems to have the woven fibres near the carved barbs. 
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