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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Porgera
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Enga Province
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Papua New Guinea
- Cultural origin
- Ipili people
- Date
- collected circa 1965-circa 1968
- Media category
- Arms & armour
- Materials used
- cassowary bone, seed pods, pig's tail, plant fibre string
- Dimensions
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30.5 cm length
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0 - Whole, 30.5 cm (12"), length of bone
0 - Whole, 4 cm (1 9/16"), width of bone
0 - Whole, 3.7 cm (1 7/16"), depth of bone
- Credit
- Gift of Stan Moriarty 1978
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 308.1978
- Copyright
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About
This bone dagger was collected by Patrol Officer Peter J Walshe while stationed in the Western Highlands between 1965 and 1968. It was given to Stan Moriarty during one of his visits to Porgera in Enga Province in 1968.