A Fine Old Spear Thrower Middle Sepik River Area East Sepik Province Papua New Guinea

A Fine Old Spear Thrower from the Middle Sepik River Area in East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea

This fine old Spear Thrower is made from a long piece of hollow bamboo with an attached carved wood crocodile figure in the old Sepik style dating from the late 19th Century.  Often the attached wood figures on Spear Throwers survive long after the bamboo shafts are gone and families save them as memories of their grandparents or the bamboo-section is remade to attach the old spear thrower ornament.

These Spear Throwers & their attached ornaments have always been of great interest to me and I have several of just the old wood ornaments in the forms of totemic Birds, Crocodiles & abstract faces.

Provenance: Collected by Albert Gross in the Sepik River area in the 1930s. The Todd Barlin Collection of Oceanic Papua New Guinea Art

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