Spear
In many areas of Oceania, the sea was considered as an ancestral domain inhabited by spiritual beings. Multi-pronged spears are constructed using coconut palm blades and were intended for catching large fish such as bonito tuna and even sharks, one of the forms that the spirits could take. Such activities were, at times, associated with male initiation rites.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 33/1953/23
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- MELAN
- Material
- woodpalmwoodvegetable fibre
- Common Name
- spear
- Simple Name
- spear
- Production County
- Goodenough Island, D’Entrecast- eaux group
- Production Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Production Year High
- 1953
