The Scholar's Feast: The Rosman Rubel Collection

The Scholar's Feast: The Rosman Rubel Collection

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Multi-Barbed Spear, Fiji

Lot Closed

April 8, 04:11 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Multi-Barbed Spear

Fiji

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Length: 113 ¾ in (288.9 cm)

The shaft with an old paper label inscribed in black ink: "From Fiji Island"

Abraham Rosman and Paula Rubel, New York
This intact fighting spear has the cone-like head sections of the tikau, a popular form of fighting spear, together with barbs that resemble the kaka, or parrot beak-like form of lot 1.