This is my latest piece. It is in the UK now so will have it soon. The anticipation is too much for me to hold back. I have some excellent pictures from the seller which I do not think I could better, except that I can show comparison pictures which I always feels helps one to make more of a sense of the item. Coming from AUS it most probably collected post 1914 and may well have been collected as late as the 1970s. That is not to dismiss the possibility that it could be earlier the border between British Papua New Guinea and German New Guinea was at times quite porous especially when gold was found. I say that it is from the Kukukuku/Anga {that straddle the old border} people only as they have retained a fascination and more researched than other peoples that inhabit the Morobe province. As some of the peoples living in the highlands were not contacted until the mid 1930's and even up to the 1950's lots of interesting information can be found about exploration and police patrolling. View the links to gain more information. The Pitt-Rivers link is very good, go to full screen. Wood and stone club making is shown in the film. Beatrice Blackwood mentions in her publication "The Kukukuku Of The Upper Watut" that she was only allowed to under take her research in the areas of regular patrols. The other links are just history of patrols.
It is not the finest of star shape club that can be found from Papua New Guinea as a whole land but still for me a nice find. I especially like the carry strap. When it is here I can be show it with other clubs from the area.
http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/blackwood.html expand and enjoy.
http://asopa.typepad.com/asopa_peopl...lism-kuru.html good 1950's picture of warriors
http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collection...ts.html#Morobe historic list of patrols