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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Marc & Elena Pinto Collection
• Sale Date:
  20 May 2015 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  133
• Lot Description:
  A Rare Blowgun Figurative Spearhead
  Indonesia (nineteenth century)
  cast iron
  40 cm high
• Provenance:
  The Marc and Elena Pinto Collection, Perth
• Notes:
  A very rare cast iron blowgun spearhead with a figure. Few of these examples are known in institutions. One in particular is in The Jerome L Joss Collection at the UCLA. Referenced in the Arc of the Ancestors book p. 67, catalog 39 collection number FMCH x86.3135. Another is featured in the Book, the Eloquent Dead by Jerome Feldman p. 105 from a private collection.
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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