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: Ea8601

: World Cultures

: Weapon

: Hunting Object

: Wooden with barbs, rounded shaft tapering to end, at top is ruff of yellow and red with carved figure inlaid in it with lime, graduated bone barbs bound in place by cane or leaf covered in some (resinous?) substance, yellow binding at tip

: Solomon Islands, Oceania / Melanesia, Pacific

: Bougainville

: Solomon Islands, Oceania / Melanesia, Pacific

: Bougainville?

: Clayton, Rear Admiral F S