It is not metal

[galvano]

Here a knife papou.
It is in bone.
It is a fémur of casoar
galvano

[Tim Simmons]

Very nice, love the scabbard, first make your string :) great condition :cool: .

[Flavio]

As a preihistoric archaeologist these kind of things always fascinate me ;)
No one can show pics of axes or adzes with stone blade? I have only one small adze and later i will post some pics :)

[Flavio]

Here are pics. The blade seems more and more time re-sharpenned :) I don't know for sure the provenience, but i think New Guinea, maybe Irian Jaya :confused:

[fearn]

As Galvano pointed out, a sharpened cassowary leg bone is pretty characteristic of Papua. Whether it's from Papua New Guinea or Irian Jaya is anyone's guess. I don't see anything stylistic that would help.

There's a nice description of the use of these daggers by the Miyanmin (central PNG) in Tim Flannery's Throwim Way Leg, which is a fun book in any case.

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