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Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure often taking weeks or months

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Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure often taking weeks or monthsAsmat people, early to mid 20th century, Irian Jaya (Papua), Indonesia Beautiful early cassowary bone dagger, finely worked and decorated with delicate incised line motifs. Daggers of this type are known as pi pisuwe, while those carved from human femur were reserved for the most sacred and high status contexts. Although carried during displays of warfare, bone daggers were principally used in ritual killings, initiations, and ceremonial attire,

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often taking weeks or months to complete

Most tools like this barbed point were lost to lakes or bogs

It became a hallmark of the Ming dynasty's funerary art

thin-walled

Bura terracotta artifacts are highly distinctive

Asmat Cassowary Bone Dagger (Pi Pisuwe) ancestralfigure often taking weeks or monthsAsmat people, early to mid 20th century, Irian Jaya (Papua), Indonesia Beautiful early cassowary bone dagger, finely worked and decorated with delicate incised line motifs. Daggers of this type are known as pi pisuwe, while those carved from human femur were reserved for the most sacred and high status contexts. Although carried during displays of warfare, bone daggers were principally used in ritual killings, initiations, and ceremonial attire,

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