Papua New Guinean Era River Hunting Arrow with Serrated Tip

Thin spike rising out of a notched, red-brown socket.

This hunting arrow with a serrated tip from the Era River area is from Era River area, Gulf, Papua New Guinea. It is bamboo, rattan & pigment. Rattan is a climbing palm whose tough, flexible strips are widely used in the Pacific region to lash and bind tools and weapons. A long, slender tip with a faint pale shine sits above a thick, ribbed shaft section. The lower portion is stained deep reddish brown and cut with jagged, stepped edges along one side. It is 63 inches high.

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