Nice quality and very old headhunters/warrior dagger. Origin made: Papoea New Guinee, Asmat people. Material: Casuaris/kasuaris leg bone, fiber, beads and casuaris feathers.
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: 33 cm / 12.94''inch. Wide: 6 cm / 2.35''inch.
No cracks or repairs, some wear of old age at the bone, nice patina of old age. We are located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.