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50-21-162
From: Solomon Islands | Buka Island (uncertain) | Bougainville (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 50-21-162 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Solomon Islands | Buka Island (uncertain) | Bougainville (uncertain) |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Cane (plant) | Wood | Peel |
| Description | Plain palmwood point tip wrapped with yellow cuticle of an orchid; cane shaft, no nock. Shaft decoration: on 2nd internode (from butt) same element of design as on 3rd internode in 50-21-161; on 3rd-6th internodes double ring of cross hatched triangles with apices pointing in opposite directions; on 7th internode hatched band with scalloped distal border followed by toothed lines repeating the curve of each scallop. Distal portion of last internode blackened. |
| Length | 141.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Charles J. Moore, 1950 |
| Other Number | L-9-162 - Other Number |
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