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Ceremonial dagger, Yina (Ina), 19th–early 20th century
Cassowary bone, traces of pigment
33 x 5.7 x 5.1 cm (13 x 2 1/4 x 2 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.280

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Collected by Anthony Forge. Anthony Forge Collection, Sydney." (Catalog #315, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 134.) EXHIBITIONS: 1991 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1991, "New Guinea Bone Carvings." PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "I believe this is the best of the Abelam daggers collected by Anthony Forge. The principal motif is an ngwalndu face, with a body composed of a leaf motif. The condyles are open-work representations of a parrot head and a lizard representing wala, a mythological spirit associated with conception (Noel Mc Guigan, personal communication). This dagger and the next three were used for display in initiation and other ceremonial occasions, not for war (Hauser-Schäublin, 1989: 117)." (Catalog #315, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 134.)

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