Description: New Guinea, circa 1900
One side of the blade finely carved with a saw-fish, and hammer-head sharks, the other side with the latter, to a plain rod, with ancestral figure end, with polychromy traces.
L. 220 cm
Provenance:
Collection Koens, Royal Dutch Marine officer and later boatsman in the Dutch-Indies in the early 20th century, thence by descent to the present owner, a private collector, Noord-Brabant