Nice quality and very old large headhunters/warrior dagger. Origin made: Papoea New Guinee, Asmat people.
Material: Casuaris/kasuaris leg bone and nail, fiber, beads and casuaris feathers and nail point. Date: ca 1900 or older.Provenance: Collected before the 1960 by the father of Niek Meijer from Rotterdam. Bought from a estate action house in the Netherlands, 2023. This week we will sell a private collection of all kind of ethno. Size: the bone Hight: 42,6 cm / 16,7''inch.
Wide: 6,6 cm / 2.58''inch. No cracks or repairs, some wear of old age at the bone and nail, nice patina of old age. We are located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.