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Dagger, 19th–early 20th century
Cassowary leg bone, charcoal pigment
34.9 x 5.1 x 5.1 cm (13 3/4 x 2 x 2 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.273

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Collected by Anthony Forge near Burui village; Anthony Forge Collection (F78)." (Catalog #251, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 122.) EXHIBITIONS: 1991 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, "New Guinea Bone Carvings." PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "Although the dagger was collected in the village on the 'extreme southern edge of Abelam area,' Forge believed its origin was Sawos, which is immediately to the south (ibid., 48)." (Catalog #251, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 122.) 1982 - Losche, 1982: 49.

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