- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bamboo knife with rectangular stop with serrated edges and two-pronged handle, incised with cross-hatched geometric patterns and dots. [El.B 22/5/2007]
- Geographical reference
- West Papua
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Ipswich Museum
- PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1966
- Date collected
- By 1966
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1966
- Materials and processes
- Material Bamboo Plant, Process Carved, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Width: max 20 mm, Length: max 250 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1966.1.1296
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