Murik Lakes Human Bone Dagger-Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection-New Guinea Art-Oceanic Art
Human Bone Dagger
Murik Lakes, Coastal Sepik River area, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
Collected 1936 by Louis Pierre Ledoux
19th century
14 ¾” (37.6 cm) in height
In Ledoux’s manuscript he mentions human-bone daggers used only in boy’s puberty ceremonies (Ch. 3, p. 58).