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Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure leaving the underside and base

Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure leaving the underside and base

Name: Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure leaving the underside and base
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SKU: 50613210771
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Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure leaving the underside and baseAsmat people, early to mid 20th century, Irian Jaya (Papua), Indonesia Beautiful early cassowary bone dagger, finely worked and decorated with delicate incised line motifs. Daggers of this type are known as pi pisuwe, while those carved from human femur were reserved for the most sacred and high status contexts. Although carried during displays of warfare, bone daggers were principally used in ritual killings, initiations, and ceremonial attire,

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leaving the underside and base unglazed

Nora Schultz

roughly 7000 to 4500 years ago

were exported across Southeast Asia

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