- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bone dagger. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 19/11/2004]
- Geographical reference
- Southern Highlands Province Koroba
- Cultural groups
- Huli
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1978
- Date collected
- By 1978
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1978
- Materials and processes
- Material Cassowary Bone Bird, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 281 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1978.8.1
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