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A tribal dagger, carved cassowary bone with inscription 'We…
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Melbourne
Date:
28-May-2023
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Description:
A tribal dagger, carved cassowary bone with inscription 'We Wekio'; together with a bamboo arrowhead, (2 items), collected by John Lean Pender, an Australian ex-pat living in New Guinea in the 1930s and 40s who returned to Australia in 1942 upon the Japanese invasion, 33 cm and 26 cm high
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Tribal: New Guinean