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Ceremonial dagger, 19th–early 20th century
Cassowary bone
35.6 x 5.1 x 5.1 cm (14 x 2 x 2 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.276

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Collected by Anthony Forge. Anthony Forge Collection, Sydney." (Catalog #316, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 134.) PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "The 'extremely stylized figure in hocker position: the body...an oval pointed at both ends' (Newton, 1989: 318) is a Kwanga style characteristic. Such figures, 'painted in horizontal rows,' have also been observed on a facade of a ceremonial house at Sunuhu village (ibid., see Swadling et al., 1988, fig. 184). The incised 'butterfly' shape around the eyes, making the forehead stand out as an inveretd triangle in high relief, is also a typical style characteristic of spirit faces carved in Kwanga daggers from Sunuhu (see Newton, 1989, figs. 22-24)." (Catalog #316, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 134.)

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